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Wireless activation of targeted brain circuits in less than one second

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Fruit flies and wireless activation of targeted brain circuits. Feels like we are in a Westworld season 4 timeline.

How about injectable nanotransducers in humans?

https://howthehell.substack.com/p/bci-part-2

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Re: Wireless activation of targeted brain circuits in less than one second

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> The researchers used genetic engineering to express a special heat-sensitive ion channel in neurons that cause flies to partially spread their wings, a common mating gesture. The researchers then injected magnetic nanoparticles that could be heated with an applied magnetic field.

The title somewhat obscures the part where the flies are genetically modified, and require injected nano particles to function as described.

Still fascinating.

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Man you could turn this into an awesome conspiracy theory with iron nano particles and gene modifying RNA being injected and then controlled using 5G.

Please do not give morons fuel.

doesn't seem impossible to do that. pretty cool tech

Re: Wireless activation of targeted brain circuits in less than one second

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Man you could turn this into an awesome conspiracy theory with iron nano particles and gene modifying RNA being injected and then controlled using 5G.

How about world-wide gangster computer god Frankenstein controls and brains in jars on the far side of the moon?

Re: Wireless activation of targeted brain circuits in less than one second

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> The researchers used genetic engineering to express a special heat-sensitive ion channel in neurons that cause flies to partially spread their wings, a common mating gesture. The researchers then injected magnetic nanoparticles that could be heated with an applied magnetic field. The title somewhat obscures the part where the flies are genetically modified, and require injected nano particles to function as describ…

Genetic modification is common in research like this, so are injections of various nanoparticles and viruses. The field of optogenetics is based around similar methods
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