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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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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channels, optogenetics, and neural circuits of behavior Deisseroth named this field "optogenetics" in 2006 and followed up with optogenetic technology...
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to 2024. Since 1986, his academic research on cardiovascular biology, optogenetics, mouse genetics, and ion channel function has been funded by the National...
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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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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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Science and Medicine for the development of optogenetics. Channelrhodopsins are key tools in optogenetics. The C-terminal end of Channelrhodopsin-2 extends...
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Chemogenetics (section Comparison to optogenetics)
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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of optogenetics beyond the proof-of-principle stage. In 2015 he received the Heinrich Wieland Prize "for his breakthrough concept of optogenetics and...
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Edward Boyden (section Optogenetics)
for his work on optogenetics and expansion microscopy. Boyden joined the MIT faculty in 2007, and continues to develop new optogenetic tools as well as...
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core member). He is most well known for his role in the development of optogenetics and CRISPR technologies. Zhang was born in China in 1981, where both...
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key reagents used in optogenetics are light-sensitive proteins. Spatially-precise neuronal control is achieved using optogenetic actuators like channelrhodopsin...
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Institute for Biological Sciences. Her research has focused on using optogenetics to identify connections in the brain that are involved in innate emotion...
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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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via the use of optogenetics as in the case of the chloride pump halorhodopsin which functions to hyperpolarize neurons. Before optogenetics can be performed...
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executive control."Dan uses the mouse as her model organism combined with optogenetics, imaging, virus-mediated circuit tracing, and electrophysiology. Dan...
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on neurons affected by optogenetics, a long-term fear-related memory appears to be recalled. Another study used optogenetics and chemogenetics to control...
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Gene therapy for epilepsy (section Optogenetics)
potassium channels and tools for on-demand suppression of excitability (optogenetics and chemogenetics).[citation needed] Adenosine is an inhibitory nucleoside...
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of optogenetics". Cell. 184 (21): 5266–5270. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2021.08.022. PMID 34562360. S2CID 237622465. Häusser, Michael (2021). "Optogenetics – The...
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Memory erasure (section Optogenetics)
taken. A way of selectively erasing memories may be possible through optogenetics, a type of gene therapy that targets specific neurons. In 2017, researchers...
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Fiber photometry (section Optogenetics and DREADDs)
for imaging of multiple interacting brain regions and integration with optogenetics, electrophysiology and more systems-level neuroscience techniques. More...
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to be known as optogenetics. These techniques were later improved by Karl Deisseroth in 2005; these pioneering studies in optogenetics led to these three...
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Flavin adenine dinucleotide (section Optogenetics)
would be unlikely to interfere with the human FAD synthase enzymes. Optogenetics allows control of biological events in a non-invasive manner. The field...
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California Institute of Technology. She develops neurotechnologies, including optogenetics CLARITY tissue clearing, and gene delivery vectors. She has been awarded...
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Laureates 2022 Hofschneider, Mark. "Light-sensitive microbial proteins and optogenetics". Lasker Foundation. Retrieved 13 December 2021. Hofschneider, Mark....
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spinal cord through the use of imaging, immunohistochemistry, molecular & optogenetics, stem cell and cellular biology, engineering, neurophysiology and nanotechnology...
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Stanford University has engineered proteins with novel functions for optogenetics, chemogenetics, and synthetic biology. Notable inventions include: Red...
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with the discovery of channelrhodopsins, which opened the new field of optogenetics. Early in 1995, Georg Nagel and Ernst Bamberg demonstrated that a microbial...
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Zhuo-Hua Pan (section Optogenetics)
Chinese-American neuroscientist, known for his foundational contributions to optogenetics. He is the Edward T. and Ellen K. Dryer Endowed Professor of Ophthalmology...
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Goldstein PA, Studer L (January 2016). "Functional Connectivity under Optogenetic Control Allows Modeling of Human Neuromuscular Disease". Cell Stem Cell...
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