Scientists Control a Fly's Heartbeat With a Laser

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By SoulskillOct 9, 2015, 10:15 pm281 pts
the_newsbeagle writes: Researchers have demonstrated a laser-based pacemaker in fruit flies, and say that a human version is "not impossible." The invention makes use of optogenetics, a technique in which the DNA that codes for a light-sensitive protein is inserted into certain cells, enabling those cells to be…

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