{"id":143058,"date":"2022-07-28T23:07:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T04:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/neuroengineers-hack-fruit-fly-brain-and-remotely-control-its-movements"},"modified":"2022-07-28T23:07:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T04:07:21","slug":"neuroengineers-hack-fruit-fly-brain-and-remotely-control-its-movements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/neuroengineers-hack-fruit-fly-brain-and-remotely-control-its-movements","title":{"rendered":"Neuroengineers hack fruit fly brain and remotely control its movements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZcBIlSS2FUM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A research team led by Rice University neuroengineers has created <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/wireless\/\">wireless<\/a> technology to remotely activate specific brain circuits in fruit flies in under one second.<\/p>\n<p>The team \u2013 an assemblage of experts in genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and electrical engineering \u2013 used magnetic signals to activate targeted neurons that controlled the body position of freely moving fruit flies in an enclosure.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers first created genetically modified flies bred to express a special heat-sensitive ion channel in neurons that cause flies to partially spread their wings, a common mating gesture. They then injected magnetic nanoparticles that could be heated with an applied magnetic field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team led by Rice University neuroengineers has created wireless technology to remotely activate specific brain circuits in fruit flies in under one second. The team \u2013 an assemblage of experts in genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and electrical engineering \u2013 used magnetic signals to activate targeted neurons that controlled the body position of freely moving [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,34,412,4,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-genetics","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}