Mind Control in Flies Sounds Like a Slippery Slope

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Mind Control in Flies Sounds Like a Slippery Slope

Sep 24, 2008

Oxford's Gero Miesenböck has written an article in SciAm about the emerging field of optogenetics and his own quest to use genetically encoded sensors and actuators to measure activity of specific neuronal cell populations.

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