Shocked with research into turning mice into 'cold blooded assassins'

According to The Washington Post, a team of scientists used brain control to turn around 10 normal rats into "cold-blooded killers."

The team includes Ivan de Araujo (professor of psychiatry and physiology at Yale University), Wenfei Han (Yale University) and Milton Canteras (neurologist at the University of São Paulo, Brazil). ). They used a technique called optogenetics , which uses laser light to manipulate the mouse's neurons, making it crazy and tearing the prey.

When the light is off, the mice are very gentle. They even avoided prey. But when the other light turned on, the mice suddenly became angry and made them mad, unable to control themselves. They dabble in prey or even toys.

The mouse tearing the prey when light streaming into the brain. (Source: The Washington Post).

They do not try to create a "monster" through the method, but try to find out how the brain works.

"Predatory behavior is often closely related to brain activity and studies have shown that differences in the brain when the mouse tracks, chases, snaps, bites and kills prey" Araujo shared his three-year study.

"We attach a sensor to the head of the mice and the blue light that activates the neuron is set in response to this light, thereby stimulating instinct to kill the child. Their bait also becomes stronger as we project light into their brains, " Araujo added.

Asked whether the technique would work on humans to create cold-blooded assassins, because the mouse's brain is structured quite similar to humans, Araujo said: "We do not see The mice attacked the other species, only showing aggression against other animals. "