{"id":33511,"date":"2017-01-16T00:05:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T08:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/scientists-snap-mice-brains-making-them-killing-machines"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:27:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:27:36","slug":"scientists-snap-mice-brains-making-them-killing-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/scientists-snap-mice-brains-making-them-killing-machines","title":{"rendered":"Scientists snap mice brains, making them killing machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-snap-mice-brains-making-them-killing-machines.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hmmm; not sure that I like what they did here.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The behavior didn\u2019t occur when they stimulated the mice\u2019s other brain parts. It\u2019s a mechanism common to all higher animals, including humans.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers expected to find these hunting circuits in mice because many mice kill and eat insects. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell\/fulltext\/S0092-8674 (16) 31743-3\">study<\/a> relied on the technique optogenetics, in which <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/neurons\">neurons<\/a> can be artificially activated using light, effectively allowing <strong>scientists<\/strong> to switch the killer instinct on and off at will.<\/p>\n<p>The team, led by <a href=\"http:\/\/jbpierce.org\/faculty\/ivan-de-araujo-dphil\/\">Ivan de Araujo<\/a>, targeted a set of neurons in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/amygdala\">amygdala<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/vouxmagazine.com\/2017\/01\/16\/scientists-snap-mice-brains-making-them-killing-machines\/\">http:\/\/vouxmagazine.com\/2017\/01\/16\/scientists-snap-mice-brai...-machines\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm; not sure that I like what they did here. The behavior didn\u2019t occur when they stimulated the mice\u2019s other brain parts. It\u2019s a mechanism common to all higher animals, including humans. The researchers expected to find these hunting circuits in mice because many mice kill and eat insects. The study relied on the technique [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33511","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56674,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33511\/revisions\/56674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}