Meaning of channelrhodopsin | Babel Free

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An opsin protein that controls phototaxis in unicellular green algae.

countable, uncountable

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“The channelrhodopsin switch is “really going to blow the lid off the whole analysis of brain function,” said George Augustine, a neurobiologist at Duke University in Durham, N.C.”

“The key is a light-activated protein called channelrhodopsin, the DNA-encoded gene for producing which can be delivered across species into brain cells.”

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