Novartis already bought into optogenetic gene therapy technology last year, but the Swiss Pharma wants more. Enter Arctos Medical, which will now join Novartis with its gene therapy program for vision ...

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 ...

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 ...

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When Edward Boyden was helping develop a tool to turn neurons on and off with light at Stanford a decade ago, he had a strong feeling it would spread far and wide. Even so, he’s been surprised by how ...

Optogenetics has greatly enlarged the scope of neuroscience by making possible the study of particular neural circuit components in both normal and diseased states. Credit: ktsdesign/ Shutterstock.com ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Optogenetic stimulation of the retina with a treatment combining injection of photoactivatable channelrhodopsin ...

The optogenetic revolution is transforming neuroscience. The dramatic recent progress in using light to both control and read out neural activity has highlighted the need for better probes, improved ...