Advances in microscopy has helped study complex questions of locomotion

Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India has highlighted how advances in microscopy has helped in the study of complex questions of walking and flying by allowing us to witness the cells at their finest resolution and revealing the specific components of the cells as well as their functions.

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Referring to his experiments on the fruit-fly, he added that over the last twenty years, the tools of observation have been improved so much that one can open up the insect and observe what is happening.

Further, various kinds of dyes and labels can be used to highlight various components, just like observational astronomy across various spectra.

Professor VijayRaghavan explained that locomotion or movement is the output of the nervous system reacting to the information we pick from our surroundings and depends on how we take it up and process it in our brain and spinal cord.

There is a substantial amount of work being done on the connectivity of the commands which control these movements.

Another area of that has been focused on in the past 20 years is ‘how movement develops’ or ‘how a baby monkey runs around soon after its birth while humans cannot, as well as how the ability to move and deal with the real world is put together.