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 ...

Optogenetics is a technique used for the study of neural circuits in the brain. It is a branch of biotechnology that combines genetics and optical techniques to conceive and control a specific neural ...

A recent study demonstrates optogenetic cardiac pacing to modulate heart rhythms and assess tachycardia-driven effects on ...

Plant scientists have engineered a light-controlled gene expression system (optogenetics system) from a prokaryotic system into a eukaryotic system that is tailored for plants. Imagine if humans could ...

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 ...

Figure 1 All-fiber-transmission multi-color recording and optogenetics system. (a) An image of the four-branch fiber bundle. (b) Diagram of the four-branch fiber bundle common branch v. (c) Schematic ...

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 ...

Biology is a lot like Legos because, metaphorically speaking, everything is a lot like Legos. The truth is that our bodies, our seemingly cohesive wholes, actually consists of innumerable small parts ...

Optogenetics is a relatively new biological technique that uses light to control the behaviour of cells in living tissue that have been genetically modified (using proteins) to become sensitive to ...