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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Watson and Crick, Schrödinger and Einstein all made theoretical breakthroughs that have changed the world's understanding of science. Today big, game-changing ideas are less common. New and improved ...