Virtual reality takes a leap into taste

(Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown) optoPAD is a newly developed system for creating virtual taste realities. It combines advanced optical and genetic techniques with touch-screen technology to monitor and control feeding behaviors and taste sensations in fruit flies. This new tool, which is now being freely shared with the scientific community, significantly extends the toolset available to study feeding behavior in this model organism, which in turn may provide important insight into the neural circuitry that underlies food choice.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news