Sharply focused on neurones, light controls a worm's behaviour

Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - 12:22 in Physics & Chemistry

Physicists and bioengineers have developed an optical instrument allowing them to control the behaviour of a worm just by shining a tightly focused beam of light at individual neurones inside the organism...

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