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Scientists Use Precise Flashes of Light to Implant False Memories in Fly Brains
Mind FlashSony Pictures EntertainmentLook here fly, you didn't see anythingNeuroscientists have already spent the better part of a decade manipulating animal minds by using light signals to trigger...
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Genetically Modified Fruit Flies Can Smell Light
Blue Light SpecialRuhr-Universitaet-Bochum via PhysOrgA petri dish with fly larvae, irradiated with blue light from underneath. Unchanged larvae normally avoid areas exposed to light. But this light...
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Researchers Making Freezable Fruit Flies, and Eventually Human Cells That Can...
Freezing the Drosophila Fruit FlySanja565658 via WikimediaResearchers at Rutgers are trying to freeze fruit flies, but this isn't just some reaction to summer boredom in the biology lab. They are...
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TED Talk: Laser Control of Headless Fruit Flies Uncovers Secrets of the Mind
Headless FliesCellThese decapitated fruit flies were able to respond to optical stimulation because their exposed neurons had been genetically modified to react to light.Ambitious researchers think...
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Fruit Flies' Neural Networks Solve Distributed Computing Problem Better Than...
Fruit Fly Neural Networkvia Carnegie Mellon UniversityNerve cells that self-select to become sensory organ precursors (SOPs) are identified by arrows in this microscope image. The cells send chemical...
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Harvard Researchers Illuminate Connections Among Brain Cells in Technicolor
Fly BrainbowHHMI via Technology ReviewIn 2007, Harvard scientists figured out how to combine fluorescent proteins to create an entire color palette, and then used it to make mouse neurons glow so they...
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Pass The Prozac: Fruit Flies Get Depressed, Too
SadflyWikimedia CommonsWhen faced with impossible circumstances beyond their control, animals hunker down as they develop sleep or eating disorders, ulcers, and other physical manifestations of...
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Fruit Flies Boost STI Immunity Before Sex
DrosophilaBbskiAmong the promiscuous common fruit fly, sexually-transmitted infections run rampant. Female fruit flies, however, have a special kind of defense to lower the potential cost of getting...
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