July 14, 2014
This is a recent news from MIT - Controlling movement with light
Just a quick question comes to my mind, how accurate we can control a light beam to shine on a single cell? I am not an expert in controlling light. But I believe we can paralyze ourselves with a laser gun in the future, like those in the movies and cartoons.
To understand more about optogenetics, watch this video from MIT from Youtube.
Explained: Optogenetics
image source: http://newsoffice.mit.edu/
