• the field of optogenetics also includes methods to record cellular activity with genetically encoded indicators. In 2010, optogenetics was chosen as...
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    channels, optogenetics, and neural circuits of behavior Deisseroth named this field "optogenetics" in 2006 and followed up with optogenetic technology...
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  • strategies for those suffering from addiction. Witten then wanted to apply optogenetics to rat models to explore neural reward circuitry, so she created Th::Cre...
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    member). He is most well known for his central role in the development of optogenetics and CRISPR technologies. Zhang was born in China in 1981 and given the...
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    function thereof) for clinical or physiological research purposes OptogeneticsOptogenetics is a neuromodulation technique employed in neuroscience that...
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  • Chemogenetics has recently been favored over optogenetics, and it avoids some of the challenges of optogenetics. Chemogenetics does not require the expensive...
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  • Optogenetic actuators are proteins that modify the activity of the cell in which they are expressed when that cell is exposed to light. These actuators...
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  • Optogenetics began with methods to alter neuronal activity with light, using e.g. channelrhodopsins. In a broader sense, optogenetic approaches also include...
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    would acquire gene-therapy business, Arctos Medical, broadening its optogenetics range. In December, Novartis announced it would purchase Gyroscope Therapeutics...
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    optogenetics: a strategy to control biological processes using light. She was among the first scientists to extend the applications of optogenetics to...
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