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Blue Light on Neuron Activity

Professor Won Do Heo Develops Light Sensitive Protein
You’ll have to go to the Nature Communications article cited in this piece [MORE]

Light Sensitive Molecule for Noninvasive Optogenetics

Optogenetics
“MIT engineers have now developed the first light-sensitive molecule that enables neurons to be silenced noninvasively, using a light source [MORE]

3-D View of NMDA Receptor

Crystal Structure of NMDA
Like Rosalind Franklin’s image of the DNA molecule, an x-ray crystallographic picture of the NMDA receptor 9N-methyl-D-aspaeate) [MORE]

Automated Patch Clamping

Boyden Brain Cell Robot
Researchers at MIT and Georgia Tech have developed a robot that automatically advances a glass pipette into [MORE]

3-D Atlas of the Brain

3D Brain Atlas
Using the brain of a 65-year old deceased woman, neuroscientists in Germany have microtomed 7,404 slices into [MORE]

Do Stem Cells Hold Wellness Genes?

Human cytomegalovirus (aka Human herpesvirus 5) is a widely spread pathogen (50-80% of all people by age 40), but [MORE]