optogenetics

Neuroscientists retrieve missing memories in mice with early Alzheimer’s symptoms

“Lost” memories can be found In the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, patients are often

Harnessing the power of light to fight cancer – optogenetic immunomodulation

Immunotherapy is one of the hottest emerging areas of cancer research. After all, using the

Bright prospects: Repairing neurons with light

Repairing neurons with light

Researchers learn how to steer the heart — with light – Optogenetics

Team from Oxford and Stony Brook first to use optogenetics to control excitation waves in

Stanford engineers develop a wireless, fully implantable device to stimulate nerves in mice

A blue glowing device the size of a peppercorn can activate neurons of the brain,

Optogenetics: Revolutionizing a revolutionary technology

Optogenetics, a technology that allows scientists to control cells with light, has blown the doors

Blue Light Sets the Beat in Biological Pacemaker

Technion researchers have successfully established a new approach for pacing the heart and synchronizing its

Light in sight: a step towards a potential therapy for acquired blindness

Hereditary blindness caused by a progressive degeneration of the light-sensing cells in the eye, the

Manipulating memory with light: Scientists erase specific memories in mice

Just look into the light: not quite, but researchers at the UC Davis Center for

Neuroscientists reverse memories’ emotional associations

MIT study also identifies the brain circuit that links feelings to memories. Most memories have

A freely moving mouse with a hydrogel implant and fiber optic cable. The blue light delivered through the cable is evenly distributed by the hydrogel. Source: Seok-Hyun Yun, Harvard Medical School.
Light-guiding Gels Provide New Avenues for Drug Detection and Delivery

Potentially transformative ways to use specific types of light for more even complex and direct

Optogenetics as good as electrical stimulation

Brown researchers have shown that optogenetics — a technique that uses pulses of visible light

Hydrogel implant enables light-based communication with cells inside the body

“Scientists only began investigating light-activated therapy a few years ago, but it is generating huge

Researchers Aim to Use Light—Not Electric Jolts—to Restore Healthy Heartbeats

When a beating heart slips into an irregular, life-threatening rhythm, the treatment is well known: