The first step in the process involves
inserting into those brain cells a gene that makes a light - sensitive protein.
Not exact matches
Well, if you put a few
brain cells to work it's quite possible to realize there are other sayings associated with OMG like «Oh My Goodness» and «Oh My Gosh»... It's very possible to not always
insert «God»
into it... Just saying...
«We're looking at bacteria that make magnetic nanoparticles, so we can
insert their genes
into brain cells in the same way,» Pralle says.
This is when integrase
inserts the virus DNA
into many human
cells, including CD4 T - immune
cells,
brain cells and other lymph
cells.
Back in the 1980s and»90s, researchers took neural
cells from human fetuses and
inserted them
into the
brains of 10 people diagnosed with Parkinson's, a neurodegenerative condition.
Working under a microscope with tweezers, steady hands, and held breath, Theall fashions copper wire only twice the diameter of a red blood
cell into electrodes that he will
insert into the cockroach's
brain.
Now researchers report that by
inserting ultra-fine electrodes
into the
brains of live mice, they have identified which neural
cells in the accessory olfactory bulb fire when one mouse checks out another's pheromonal fingerprint.
Inserting genes
into brain cells may one day offer doctors a way to slow, or even reverse, the damage from degenerative neurological disease
The researchers
inserted an optogenetic switch
into a group of nerve
cells located in the ancient part of the
brain called the medulla, allowing them to activate or inactivate the neurons with laser light.
Both teams used viruses to
insert four genes comprising the transcription factors
into skin
cells, and demonstrated that
brain, heart and other tissues could be created from
cells created this way.
Using a miniature microscope
inserted into the
brains of the mice, Hen's team recorded the activity of hundreds of
cells in the hippocampus as the mice freely moved around their surroundings.
In an attempt to locate and boost the
brain cells responsible for motivation in rats, Melissa Warden at Stanford University in California and colleagues
inserted electrodes
into two
brain regions thought to control the feeling.
Using a miniature microscope
inserted into the
brains of the mice, the researchers recorded the activity of hundreds of
cells in the hippocampus as the mice freely moved around their surroundings.