S3E5: The Future of Psychiatry with Professor Karl Deisseroth
Theory and Practice
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The Microbl Obsene and Its Effects on Cells
This had been known for decades. This was sitting there, not even hidden in nature, but part of the text book training of bichemists. The currents that they made were very small and these were from microbes that are very distant across the tree of life from mammals. And the motivation to try using these as a control tool was greatly tempered by a number of other ors. That's probably, particularly for this foreign protein from a microbe, that's probably not going to be safe. It would have meant jamming a lot of these into the cells to make enough current to be able to turn a cell on or off. They do that to follow light, whatever they need
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