Scientists Build Microscope Onto The Head Of A Rat

mindpixel writes: "Unisci is reporting: 'The ability to see individual neurons in detail in the brains of conscious, behaving animals seems like the stuff of science fiction. But in the current issue of Neuron, Professor Winfried Denk and colleagues report that they have done just that. In a stunning technical achievement, they have built a tiny, powerful microscope onto the head of a rat.'" This might be technically stunning, but I wonder how much the rat likes it.

Comments

Really?

[Monkeychunks]

If that's the way you feel then why don't you have the microscope implanted into your head... Don't like that do you? Neither does the rat.

Rats may not have the lavish and lengthy life that we do, but they're still entitled to live their lives the way rats do, without amoral "scientists" vivisecting them.

Besides, a rat brain is a damn sight different to a human one, and frankly unless you apply this technique to a human brain, then this "research" will lead down some potentially dangerous dark alleys, and life will have been destroyed in a useless experiment.