How do brain regions communicate? Researchers introduce a new optogenetic method to target long-distance circuits in ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers combined AI and optogenetics to diagnose and slow Parkinson’s-like disease. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) A South Korean ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 South Korean research group has reported in a new paper that artificial intelligence and light-based genetic tools can work together to diagnose and stop Parkinson’s-like disease in mice. The work ...