MIT researchers have devised a way to control single neurons using optogenetics. To help achieve this, they developed an opsin, or light-sensitive protein, that can be targeted to neuron cell bodies (bottom row). Neurons in the top row have traditional opsins that are distributed throughout their axons. Courtesy of the researchers

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11/13/2017

Next-generation optogenetic molecules control single neurons

BY:MIT News

Summary: Scientists, led by BRAIN Initiative grantee Valentina Emiliani of MIT, report in Nature Neuroscience a new technique for controlling single neurons using light.

Link to another website: http://news.mit.edu/2017/next-generation-optogenetic-molecules-control-single-neurons-1113