Hello? Pentagon?....Yes...who in the name of god gave you permission to use my mind control device!!!! you ignorant buffoons!!!
Posted on 04/08/2005 10:11:02 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Yale University researchers say their study that used lasers to create remote-controlled fruit flies could lead to a better understanding of overeating and violence in humans.
Using the lasers to stimulate specific brain cells, researchers say they were able to make the flies jump, walk, flap their wings and fly.
Even headless flies took flight when researchers stimulated the correct neurons, according to the study, published in the April 7 issue of the journal Cell.
Scientists say the study could ultimately help identify the cells associated with psychiatric disorders, overeating and aggressiveness.
Biologists have long known that an electrical stimulus can trigger muscle response, but this approach used focused beams of light to stimulate neurons that would have been impossible to study using electrodes.
Gero Miesenbock, associate professor of cell biology at Yale, said if the process could be duplicated on mice, researchers might be able to better understand the cellular activity that leads to certain behavior.
"Ultimately, that could be important to understanding human psychiatric disorders," Miesenbock said. "That's really futuristic stuff."
Those are some enlightened flies.
Come over here so I can smack you.
...good to see they got headless bugs to fly.
Fire flies
Fly, fly away, waspish one!
OMG! It even works on liberals.
There goes free will...
Wait until liberals will be shining lasers at us, and we will obediently fill in the little bubble on the ballots next to Hillary's name.
Amazing PING
Hello? Pentagon?....Yes...who in the name of god gave you permission to use my mind control device!!!! you ignorant buffoons!!!
[Using the lasers to stimulate specific brain cells, researchers say they were able to make the flies jump, walk, flap their wings and fly.]
[Gero Miesenbock, associate professor of cell biology at Yale, said if the process could be duplicated on mice, researchers might be able to better understand the cellular activity that leads to certain behavior.]
That's a pretty big "if".
Flies are not mice.
Big Deal. Give me a cattle prod and I can make anyone jump and flap their arms, Why, I could rule the world!
Yeah okay doc, keep screwing with mother nature.
looks like a coherent experimental result.
['Civ accepts the cascade of flowers from the delighted crowd]
The potential military applications are mind boggling.
Fruit flies...Those are the gay flies right?
The libs have remote control voters.
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