'Blue Light Syncs Heartbeats in Fruit Flies' (1 of 1) (IMAGE)

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'Blue Light Syncs Heartbeats in Fruit Flies' (1 of 1)

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Heart rhythm of fruit flies at different developmental stages can be noninvasively controlled by light using optogenetics. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 9, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Alex at the Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA, and colleagues was titled, 'Optogenetic pacing in Drosophila melanogaster.'

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[Credit: Alex, <i>et al.</i>, Lehigh University]

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