Sentences with phrase «optogenetic technology»

In use for only about a decade, optogenetic technology combines techniques from optics and genetics, allowing scientists to precisely control activities of individual neurons using light.

«Optogenetic technology uses light to trigger immunotherapy.»

A new optogenetic technology developed by scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Texas A&M Health Science Center Institute of Biosciences & Technology, called optogenetic immunomodulation, is capable of turning on immune cells to attack melanoma tumors in mice.

Optogenetic technologies targeting neurons rely on the electrical impulses these cells use to quickly transmit messages.

Using a new class of nanoparticles developed by Dr. Han, Dr. Xiang and colleagues propose to selectively turn on non-image forming photoreceptors (NIFP) inside mice and Drosophila unencumbered by the fiber optic wires used in currently available optogenetic technologies.

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Now an assistant professor at Caltech, Gradinaru and her research group are developing technologies for neuroscience, including optogenetics, tissue clearing, and viral vectors, and using them to probe circuits underlying locomotion, reward, and sleep.

Other researchers have used optogenetics to transmit artificial skin sensations into the brains of mice, but Ko plans to investigate other technologies to find a technique that's best suited for his lab's e-skin.

Most recently, a technology called optogenetics has allowed experimenters to toggle entire brain circuits «on» or «off» by shining laser light on genetically modified synapses.

A new technology called optogenetics may help restore sight for some blind people.

Neuroscientists have been using optogenetics, which combine recent breakthroughs in both optical technology and genetics, to stimulate the activity of individual neurons in animals using light.

Understanding how networks of cells in circuits work together to give rise to behaviors, thoughts, and emotions requires new technology, he said, and optogenetics is starting to provide new approaches for mapping and repairing the brain.

Now an assistant professor at Caltech, she and her research group are developing technologies for neuroscience, including optogenetics, tissue clearing, and viral vectors, and are using them to probe circuits underlying locomotion, reward, and sleep.

For the new study, the Stanford investigators deployed optogenetics, a technology pioneered by co-author Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and of bioengineering.

In a paper published today in the journal Science, researchers at MIT reveal that they were able to reactivate memories that could not otherwise be retrieved, using a technology known as optogenetics.

Early in his career, Dr. Zhang was a co-inventor of optogenetics, a new neuroscience technology.

The development of extraordinary new technologies for genome editing, optogenetics (the use of light to control living cells) and the rapid creation of peptides (small chains of amino acids) for therapeutic compounds are just a few examples of the cutting edge research being conducted by the 2017 National Finalists in Life Sciences.

«We are trying to build a novel technology that enables us to control a selected protein simply using light, moving the resolution of optogenetics from the cellular level to the molecular level,» said Wang, associate professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry.

Optogenetics, a technology that allows scientists to control brain activity by shining light on neurons, relies on light - sensitive proteins that can suppress or stimulate electrical signals within cells.

He has been at the forefront of developing and applying new technologies for neural circuit manipulation, such as optogenetics and pharmacogenetics, to the study of emotional behaviors such as fear, anxiety and aggression, in both mice and fruit flies.

For instance, it's possible to imagine a future in which viruses, optogenetics, and related technologies are harnessed to modulate neural circuits to treat specific neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders in humans.

GenSight Biologics» pipeline leverages two core technology platforms, the Mitochondrial Targeting Sequence (MTS) and optogenetics to help preserve or restore vision in patients suffering from blinding retinal diseases.

Callahan uses cool «optogenetic» technology to study the connections in mice.

However some technical challenges still need to be taken to make the technology more accessible and usable to its full potential: gaining selective and comprehensive genetic access to the neurons of interest, controlling variation in the expression of the optogenetic tools (when using viruses) and its precise localization (axon vs. presynaptic terminals), tailoring light - delivery system signals to individual cells in a population rather than the population as a whole, developing observation techniques which have the same spatial and temporal resolution as those tools... to cite only a few of them.

The technology to program the cells included optogenetics (a way to control cells with light) a programming language for cells called Cello that Voigt and his team developed last year and a new method for controlling gene functions known as CRISPR.

Our Organ - Chips were named a top 10 technology of 2016, along with self - driving cars, next generation batteries, and optogenetics.