"channelrhodopsin" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2007 August 14, Ingfei Chen, “The Beam of Light That Flips a Switch That Turns on the Brain”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "The channelrhodopsin switch is “really going to blow the lid off the whole analysis of brain function,” said George Augustine, a neurobiologist at Duke University in Durham, N.C.",
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        "An opsin protein that controls phototaxis in unicellular green algae."
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