… in a virtual maze. To do so, Fan and her colleagues used “optogenetics,” a technology that genetically engineers … cells. Fan’s use of multiple simultaneous optical methods (optogenetics, GEVIs and an endocannabinoid reporter) is new …
… light using a somewhat more established technology called optogenetics. The experiments revealed how the sense of … inhibition in the brain’s outermost layer. Because both optogenetics and GEVIs require shining light onto target … Karl Deisseroth, a psychiatrist/engineer and pioneer of optogenetics. There Fan hoped to study something that had …
… help place cells attune to locations to begin with. With “optogenetics” they took control of the activity of the CCK … said. She plans to probe the mechanism further by using optogenetics to induce the complex spikes that trigger DSI. …
… for astrocytes a technology Boyden co-invented called optogenetics. Optogenetics changes cells to become responsive to flashes of visible light. Widely applied in neurons, optogenetics alters genes that regulate whether neurons …