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Why Do You Think Computers Were Invented? What Influenced the Stages

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Why do you think computers were invented? What influenced the stages of computer evolution for the past five decades? What do you predict for the computer industry in the year 2050?


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Voltage-Sensitive Ion Channels

Voltage-sensitive ion channels are a class of transmembrane proteins that open or close in response to changes in the electrical potential across the cellular membrane, essential for neuronal signaling.

Action Potential

An action potential is a temporary reversal in the electrical charge across a cell's plasma membrane, responsible for the propagation of nerve impulses.

Optogenetics

A biotechnological method that uses light to control cells within living tissue, often neurons, to precisely study and manipulate physiological processes.

Channelrhodopsin-2

A light-sensitive ion channel used in optogenetics for controlling and studying neurons with light.

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