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 ...

Fermeate uses optogenetics—precise control of gene expression with light—to turbocharge productivity in bioreactors, with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers combined AI and optogenetics to diagnose and slow Parkinson’s-like disease. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) A South Korean ...

As a child, Max Hodak learned to develop film in a darkroom with his grandfather who was almost blind. Hodak’s grandfather had retinitis pigmentosa, a congenital disease that affects one out of every ...

Optogenetics has long been a powerful experimental tool, but a growing body of research suggests it may now be approaching a point where it could reshape how neurological disorders are treated.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University and Indiana University School of Medicine scientists were able to force an epigenetic reaction that turns on and off a gene known to determine the fate of the ...

A new paper in Oxford Open Neuroscience, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that optogenetics, suggested as a promising treatment for many psychological and neurological conditions, may ...

Using optogenetics, researchers used pulses of light to prevent seizure-like activity in neurons. This is the first use of optogenetics to modulate seizure activity at the network level in human brain ...

In what could one day become a new treatment for epilepsy, researchers at UC San Francisco, UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley have used pulses of light to prevent seizure-like activity in neurons. The ...

A South Korean research group has reported in a new paper that artificial intelligence and light-based genetic tools can work together to diagnose and stop Parkinson’s-like disease in mice. The work ...