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NEW - A Memory Switched Off With Light? Meet Optogenetics
Nobel Prize science gets strange when light can change a mouse’s response to a frightening memory. Dr. Samantha Yammine makes optogenetics understandable, including the distance between this laboratory research and the mind-control scenario it might bring to mind.
Then picture trying to detect something that passes through your body without you noticing. At the South Pole, a vast stretch of ice becomes part of the search. What could scientists possibly see there that they couldn’t see before?
The strangest distinction might be hiding in a molecule’s mirror image. Two…
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