BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Flies get ‘mind-control sex swap’
Posted by Xeno on April 22, 2008
Scientists have been able to take control of flies’ brains to make females behave just like males.Researchers genetically modified the insects so that a group of brain cells that control sexual behaviour could be “switched on” by a pulse of light….To investigate, the team placed some flies in a “mini sound studio”.The insects had been genetically modified so that a pulse of light would activate this group of courtship neurons. - bbc
