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Synthetic Ion Channel Silences Cells in Live Zebrafish

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Synthetic Ion Channel Silences Cells in Live Zebrafish

video: This image shows touch response of zebrafish embryos expressing BLINK1. Control embryo (GFP-injected), 2 day-old, was exposed to 1h of blue light and tested by mechanical stimulation with the tip of a pipette. Next, BLINK1-injected embryo was tested in the same way. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 15, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Cristian Cosentino at the University of Milano in Milan, Italy, and colleagues was titled, "Engineering of a light-gated potassium channel." view more 

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