{"id":860336,"date":"2025-07-05T19:16:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T00:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/05\/frozen-light-switches-how-arctic-microbes-could-revolutionize-neuroscience\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T19:16:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T00:16:36","slug":"frozen-light-switches-how-arctic-microbes-could-revolutionize-neuroscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/05\/frozen-light-switches-how-arctic-microbes-could-revolutionize-neuroscience\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen light switches: How Arctic microbes could revolutionize neuroscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature In the frozen reaches of the planet\u2014glaciers, mountaintops, and icy groundwater\u2014scientists have uncovered strange light-sensitive molecules in tiny microbes. These \u201ccryorhodopsins\u201d can respond to light in ways that might let researchers turn brain cells on and off like switches. Some even glow blue, a rare and useful trait for medical applications&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2025\/07\/250704235550.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Elida Klemp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature In the frozen reaches of the planet\u2014glaciers, mountaintops, and icy groundwater\u2014scientists have uncovered strange light-sensitive molecules in tiny microbes. These \u201ccryorhodopsins\u201d can respond to light in ways that might let researchers turn brain cells on and off like switches. Some even glow blue, a rare and useful trait for medical applications&#8230;Read MoreElida [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":860337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2256,4732,536],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-860336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-frozen","8":"category-light","9":"category-science-nature"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}