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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 ...

Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have studied the impact of two brain areas on the nature of memory content. The team from the Department of Neurophysiology showed in rats how the ...

As a child, Max Hodak learned to develop film in a darkroom with his grandfather who was almost blind. Hodak's grandfather had retinitis pigmentosa, a congenital disease that affects one out of every ...

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 ...

Using optogenetics, researchers used pulses of light to prevent seizure-like activity in neurons. This is the first use of optogenetics to modulate seizure activity at the network level in human brain ...

A novel optogenetic screening platform enables control over previously intractable biological systems. Using the screening platform, scientists have been able to selectively activate the integrated ...

New research published in the Journal of Internal Medicine demonstrates that optogenetics - which uses light-sensitive proteins to control the activity of targeted cells - is a promising shock-free ...

Marc Zimmer received funding from NIH for his fluorescent protein research. Today big, game-changing ideas are less common. New and improved techniques are the driving force behind modern scientific ...

In what could one day become a new treatment for epilepsy, researchers have used pulses of light to prevent seizure-like activity in neurons. In what could one day become a new treatment for epilepsy, ...