A strategy to transmit signals to retinal nerve cells may show promise as a step toward alternative retinal prosthesis design.
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Neurons engineered to light up when they fire could help researchers study more precisely how the brain works.
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An account of the path to realizing tools for controlling brain circuits with light
The optogenetic toolset is composed of genetically encoded molecules that, when targeted to specific neurons in the brain, enable the electrical activity of those neurons to be driven or silenced by light. When these opsins are expressed in the lipid
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This animation illustrates optogenetics—a radical new technology for controlling brain activity with light. Ed Boyden, the co-inventor of this technology, is a professor at the MIT Media Lab and at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, where he continues to develop new technologies for controlling brain activity.
Visualizing neuronal activity in small brains over four dimensions
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