Ratbots Researchers funded by the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency, which does R&D for the Department of Defense, have implanted probes in the brains of rats, with the idea of controlling the rats via commands from a remote computer. Liane Hansen talks with John Chapin, professor of physiology and pharmacology at SUNY Downstate School of Medicine, the principle investigator for the study. It's detailed in the current issue of Nature.

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Researchers funded by the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency, which does R&D for the Department of Defense, have implanted probes in the brains of rats, with the idea of controlling the rats via commands from a remote computer. Liane Hansen talks with John Chapin, professor of physiology and pharmacology at SUNY Downstate School of Medicine, the principle investigator for the study. It's detailed in the current issue of Nature.