(IMAGE)

ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences

Caption

A single worm in which the flavor of chemical neurotransmitter has been replaced by the color of the photon. The cyan neuron is presynaptic to the yellow and red and thus controls their activity using cyan colored light.

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©ICFO

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