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io9: An Input/Output Device for the Brain - Made of Light, Algae, and Bacteria [Mad Science]
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RT @Stanford Using light to stimulate brain cells: Stanford researchers on their way to find cure for Parkinson’s? http://bit.ly/3RVHB2 9 days ago |
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RT @joemuggs: Yes but seriously though, REMOTE CONTROLLED MOUSE WTF http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/mf_optigenetics/all/1 9 days ago |
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mmm, remote controlled brains http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/mf_optigenetics/all/1 9 days ago |
An Input/Output Device for the Brain - Made of Light, Algae, and Bacteria [Mad Science]
io9 —
... around the corner. But it has suddenly leapt from the realm of wild fantasy to concrete possibility. Of course, there are darker fantasies that lurk here too, of perfect mind control and memory suppression. Indeed, optogenetic devices could one day lead to the consumer-grade memory-eating devices in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Or to Google implants in your brain. You have to read this mind-blowing, brilliantly-written article. via Wired
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Links for 22nd October 2009
Velcro City Tourist Board —
Fresh from the clogged tubes of teh intarwubs…
Algae and Light Help Injured Mice Walk Again
"Treating Parkinson’s and other brain diseases could be just the beginning. Optogenetics has amazing potential, not just for sending information into the brain but also for extracting it. And it turns out that Tsien’s Nobel-winning work — the research he took up when he abandoned the hunt for channelrhodopsin — is the key to doing this. By injecting mice neurons with yet another gene, one that makes cells glow green when they ...
Optogenetics: the key to our cyborg future?
Futurismic —
... There’s a lengthy but interesting piece up over at Wired about the relatively young discipline of optogenetics – the science of isolating and communicating with specific types of neuron using light. The discovery of the process is an interesting story in its own right, but the really futurismic bit is the implication tucked into the final few paragraphs: ...
Random Linkage 24/10/09
Earth and other unlikely worlds —
Smart rat 'Hobbie-J' produced by over-expressing a gene that helps brain cells communicate ‘Over-expressing a gene that lets brain cells communicate just a fraction of a second longer makes a smarter rat, report researchers from the Medical College of Georgia and East China Normal University.’ Algae and Light Help Injured Mice Walk Again ‘In the summer of 2007, a team of Stanford graduate students dropped a mouse into a plastic basin. The mouse sniffed the floor curiously. It didn’t seem to care that a fiber-optic cable was threaded through its skull. Nor ...
25 of the Scariest Science Experiments Ever Conducted [Mad Science]
io9 —
... of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved Mind control Optogenetics A biotech system that allows scientists to turn neurons in your brain on and off using different colors of light. The technique, which requires brain implants, already works in rodents, who can be compelled to turn in a specific direction. Imagine what would happen if optogenetics were used to regulate human behavior. Source: Wired Stimocever José Delgado, a Professor at Yale, invented the ...
