Now Optogenetics 2.0 is adding to neuroscientists’ bag of brain-control tricks. In the Caltech study, neurotechnologist Mikhail Shapiro and his colleagues substituted designer drugs for the ...

Versatility of optogenetics brain-research technique vastly expanded. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2010 / 03 / 100318132456.htm ...

University of Rochester researchers have demonstrated a noninvasive method using BL-OG, or bioluminescent optogenetics, that harnesses light to activate neurons in the brain. The ability to ...

Implant-free optogenetics minimizes brain damage during neuronal stimulation. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 04 / 200429111141.htm ...

An experimental technique called optogenetics is starting to change the way researchers look at the brain. The tool allows them to switch entire brain circuits on and off using light, and may help ...

Leonard Mlodinow: In 2013, "optogenetics" is the technology to watch out for . Mlodinow: Imagine being able to turn neurons in a brain on and off from the outside ...

Imagine the magnificent glaciers of Greenland, the eternal snow of the Tibetan high mountains, and the permanently ice-cold ...

The study, a tour de force in bioengineering, comes after two decades of research on brain-to-brain synchrony in people. By Virginia Hughes Late one evening last March, just before the coronavirus ...

Researchers have succeeded in controlling a monkey’s brain with a remarkable level of precision using impulses of light aimed at specific kinds of neural cells. We’ve all been there.