Professor Won Do Heo Develops Light Sensitive Protein
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Optogenetics
“MIT engineers have now developed the first light-sensitive molecule that enables neurons to be silenced noninvasively, using a light source [MORE]
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]
Boyden Brain Cell Robot
Researchers at MIT and Georgia Tech have developed a robot that automatically advances a glass pipette into [MORE]
3D Brain Atlas
Using the brain of a 65-year old deceased woman, neuroscientists in Germany have microtomed 7,404 slices into [MORE]
Human cytomegalovirus (aka Human herpesvirus 5) is a widely spread pathogen (50-80% of all people by age 40), but [MORE]