Sentences with phrase «produce channelrhodopsin»
He gestured to a dense cloud of glowing green neurons in the upper right — the subiculum itself — and explained that his team had genetically engineered the mouse to produce channelrhodopsin only in the subiculum's neurons.
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Chang got a genetic foothold on this sensory system by labeling GPCRs in mice and engineering them to produce channelrhodopsin, a molecule that allowed the scientists to use light to manipulate the cells» function and study the neurons sorted by different GPCRs.
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He mentioned mouse studies by Chris Fiorillo, now at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), who inserted genetic sequences that code for a light - sensitive protein called channelrhodopsin - 2 into dopamine - producing neurons of mice.