A flash of light changes cell activity - and understanding of disease

Tuesday, July 31, 2012 - 08:31 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org) -- With a milliseconds long flash of blue light, Yale University researchers regulated a critical type of signaling molecule within cell membranes, another illustration of the power of light-based techniques to manipulate cell functions and thus to study mechanisms of disease.

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