Neurobiology Tools: Flashdancing Worms

Neurobiology Tools: Flashdancing Worms

The functional analysis of neuronal circuitry would be facilitated if researchers were able to control, over extended periods of time, the activity of genetically defined populations of neurons in vivo. New work using light-gated cation channels from green algae offers hope that this might soon be possible.

Optogenetics, Tools and Applications in Neurobiology

Comprehension of the brain function can be helpful for therapy of neurodegenerative diseases. The brain consists of various types of neuron sets, which organize in three-dimensional complex networks and form neural circuits underlying different behaviors. The circuits act based on the patterns that encode the brain functions. Recognition of the neural patterns requires methods to manipulate the...

A Potency Relation for Worms and Next-Generation Attack Tools

We describe the attributes that span the space of attack tools, illustrate a class of nextgeneration attack tools and contrast it with contemporary worms, and outline a methodology that can be used to express the potency of the threat. In identifying what influences the potency of a threat we hope to identify underlying principles that govern the potency of a class of attack tools or a specific...

Worms

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Worms, Nematoda