AC/DC's Thunderstruck Is Being Used By Researchers For Cancer Treatment

We all love our rock tunes and we've been given another reason as to why the genre is so great, as it has been revealed that researchers are using heavy music for cancer treatment and it's proving to be effective. 

Originally reported by The Lead, researchers from the University of South Australia have found that vibrations from rock music cause particles carrying the chemotherapy drug camptothecin to bounce, resulting in a "teflon-like" coating that prevents the drug from escaping.

And the song they've used to test the theory? AC/DC's Thunderstruck.

"The micro particles are porous, basically they are like a sponge. You fill them up with a drug, but of course you want to prevent the drug from escaping, and that is why we create the coating," Professor Nico Voelcker said.

"Normally we would ignite a plasma onto the surface. The problem with doing that is you only form the coating on one side of the particle, the side that is exposed. But the side of the particle on the surface, the other side, is not going to get coated.

"That is where we came up with the idea of using a loud speaker that we would play into the system. We would turn that loudspeaker to a song that it would vibrate and the particles would bounce up and down. The chaotic frequencies worked well and gave you a more homogenous coating."

Voelcker went on to say that the use of AC/DC's classic track was intentional. 

"Plasma is the fourth stage of matter, it is an ionised gas," Voelcker explained.

"We used a cold plasma, but an example of a hot plasma would be the rays of thunder. We ended up using Thunderstruck because we liked how it linked thunder and plasma gas."

Check out the full detailed explanation by reading a paper of the system listed on the National Institute of Health website.