Controlling animal experiments as desired by radio and light has become a reality

A remarkable scientific advance, opening up more areas related to the neuroscience and brain aspects.

This mouse never really wanted to run in a circle. Simply put, its brain is only being manipulated and interfering from one place to another. At that time, all consciousness is aware of it only by following the commands that appear in the mind. This is a new discovery by scientists that apply wireless radio waves to activate light implanted inside the rat's brain cortex, stimulating the receptors for light and control neurons. its moving.

This is a study developed by IEEE Spectrum . Ada Poon, a professor of electromagnetic engineering at Stanford University, has directly monitored the results of this process, involving experimental animal control measures. Previously, there were similar works, but then they had to use a built-in battery-powered system, which allowed for many limited tasks, not achieving the desired results. original purpose.

Prior to actually driving the mouse correctly in circles, the team first had to ensure that the mouse's neurons responded to the light. Poom states,

" We replicate this mechanism in a single-celled algae that acts to swim to the light source due to the properties of a protein in its membrane." The protein responds to light by opening an ion channel in the membrane. In 2005, a team of scientists took the genetic code of that protein and transplanted it into the DNA of the rat neuron. "

Mouse control experiments

Once applied, the brain cells of the mouse will be more sensitive to light than normal, sending another signal to the processing body, and in this case the order is circular. The scientists also installed a special experimental radio transmitter that was refined in its cage. Each time it enters the cage, the resonant signal automatically emits and stimulates the brain, causing it to repeat the controlled action.