Optogenetics is a new field of research that introduces light-sensitive proteins into cells in a genetically targeted manner, for example, to obtain information on signalling pathways and the function ...

This news release is available in German. FRANKFURT. Optogenetics is a new field of research that introduces light-sensitive proteins into cells in a genetically targeted manner, for example, to ...

The first low-cost, easy-to-use optogenetics hardware platform will let biologists who have little or no training in engineering or software design incorporate optogenetics testing in their labs. The ...

The European Research Council (ERC) is providing 10 million euros in funding for an interdisciplinary, collaborative project in the structural and biophysical analysis of selected photoreceptors and ...

Around the same time as Triplett and his colleagues, the "Wavefront Engineering Microscopy team" at Sorbonne University also started exploring the potential of holographic optogenetics as a tool to ...

When Edward Boyden was helping develop a tool to turn neurons on and off with light at Stanford a decade ago, he had a strong feeling it would spread far and wide. Even so, he’s been surprised by how ...

Recently, brain researchers have gained a powerful new way to troubleshoot neural circuits associated with depression, Parkinson's disease and other conditions in small animals such as rats. They use ...

STANFORD, Calif. — Recently, brain researchers have gained a powerful new way to troubleshoot neural circuits associated with depression, Parkinson's disease and other conditions in small animals such ...

The optogenetic revolution is transforming neuroscience. The dramatic recent progress in using light to both control and read out neural activity has highlighted the need for better probes, improved ...

Optogenetics has been instrumental for the dissection of functional neural circuits. As this branch of neuroscience flourishes, and as experimental designs become increasingly sophisticated, the need ...

Biophysicists have developed a hypothesis to explain the function of a light-driven protein which pumps sodium ions across a cell membrane, and they have revealed the key structural feature of these ...