[InterfaceGuy]

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."

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/050411/ap/d89dbiro2.html

Hmm. I wonder how long until we can remotely control a human.

[f1000]

Originally posted by InterfaceGuy:
Hmm. I wonder how long until we can remotely control a human.

Ask Cheney.



(Sorry my fellow Repubs, I couldn't help it. )

[budster101]

Originally posted by InterfaceGuy:
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/050411/ap/d89dbiro2.html

Hmm. I wonder how long until we can remotely control a human.

Cool, read Dan Brown's

Cool technology in this book, and the fly is one of them.

[MaxPower2k3]

Originally posted by InterfaceGuy:
[url]Hmm. I wonder how long until we can remotely control a human.

I wonder how long until we can control a headless human

[historylme]

Originally posted by MaxPower2k3:
I wonder how long until we can control a headless human

See f1000 reply.

[Mafia]

Originally posted by f1000:


Ask Cheney.



(Sorry my fellow Repubs, I couldn't help it. )

[olePigeon]

I want one.

Actually, I wanna RC Bee. Go around and sting people. Or maybe an RC Nat so I can annoy the hell out of people I don't like.

When my dad was a kid they'd tie string around bees like a leash and tote them around.