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Light controls a worm’s behavior: Scientists commandeer organism’s nervous system without wires or electrodes
January 24, 2011 by NewsBot
Physicists and bioengineers have developed an optical instrument allowing them to control the behavior of a worm just by shining a tightly focused beam of light at individual neurons inside the organism.
