Optogenetics is a technique used for the study of neural circuits in the brain. It is a branch of biotechnology that combines genetics and optical techniques to conceive and control a specific neural ...

Prolific Machines technology gives developers precise, real-time control over when and how much protein a cell produces.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . New technology like optogenetics, which uses the application of light to genetically modify target cells, offers ...

Optogenetics has greatly enlarged the scope of neuroscience by making possible the study of particular neural circuit components in both normal and diseased states. Credit: ktsdesign/ Shutterstock.com ...

To understand and manipulate components of the brain, “the central challenge in neuroscience is the difficulty of controlling just one type of neuron at a time!” observed Francis Crick prophetically ...

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What the scientists had was a lab version of The Dog That Didn’t Bark — or, if Sherlock Holmes were chronicling the experiment, The Mice That Didn’t Freeze. One at a time, the 20 mice went into a ...

In what could one day become a new treatment for epilepsy, researchers at UC San Francisco, UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley have used pulses of light to prevent seizure-like activity in neurons.The ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Optogenetic stimulation of the retina with a treatment combining injection of photoactivatable channelrhodopsin ...

A 58-year-old man who has been blind for years now sees well enough to make out shapes, including the white lines of a crosswalk. The advancement comes thanks to a technology called “optogenetics,” a ...