What the scientists had was a lab version of The Dog That Didn’t Bark — or, if Sherlock Holmes were chronicling the experiment, The Mice That Didn’t Freeze. One at a time, the 20 mice went into a ...

For people with paralysis or amputation, neuroprosthetic systems that artificially stimulate muscle contraction with electrical current can help them regain limb function. However, despite many years ...

Optogenetics was a revolution, it’s true. It was the CRISPR/CAS9 of a few years ago. It forced mild mannered scientists everywhere to bacchanal parties. The 2010 Nature Method of the year allowed ...

Soft and flexible: The optoelectronic implant containing a micro-LED array is inserted over the surface of the spinal cord. (Credit: Jimmy Ravier) Optogenetics – a technique that uses light to control ...

The first low-cost, easy-to-use optogenetics hardware platform will let biologists who have little or no training in engineering or software design incorporate optogenetics testing in their labs. The ...

(Embargoed) CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Using a combination of genetic engineering and laser technology, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have manipulated brain wiring ...

If I had to place money on a neurotech that will win the Nobel Prize, it’s optogenetics. The technology uses light of different frequencies to control the brain. It’s a brilliant mind-meld of basic ...

Effective treatments for incontinence are urgently needed. Now, a multi-institutional team of researchers has developed a wireless system that can measure bladder function in freely moving rats over ...

...researchers have demonstrated the ability to control bladder function in mice...through light-sensitive ion channels... The urinary bladder is an electrically excitable organ that enables the ...

Researchers at MIT and Paris Descartes University have developed a new optogenetic technique that sculpts light to target individual cells bearing engineered light-sensitive molecules, so that ...