Tag: optogenetics

Researchers mapped mouse brain circuits to reveal that median raphe neurons actively generate sleep drive and govern non-rapid eye movement ...

A brief, stimulus-triggered feedforward signal from mouse somatosensory to motor cortex predicted task success and conveyed stimulus-selective information.

A new review in Frontiers in Medical Technology surveys how optogenetics has advanced the study of neural circuits in neurodegenerative ...

In gerbils, multichannel LED-based optical cochlear implants combined with ChReef gene therapy achieved spectrally distinct auditory midbrain activity at clinically ...

Researchers used optogenetic melanopsin stimulation in HeLa cells to show that the timing pattern of light-evoked calcium signaling selectively shapes ...

A rat study combining fMRI, optogenetics, and connectivity modeling shows that high-frequency thalamic activation is preserved locally but fails to ...

University of Würzburg professor Georg Nagel shares the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that enabled light-based ...

In a small rat study of cervical spinal cord injury, light-based stimulation below the lesion improved forelimb reaching and axonal-growth ...

The 2026 Nobel Prize-winning optogenetics technology is now being adapted to probe plant immune signaling, screen novel insecticides, and guide ...

Researchers report a non-viral, OCT-guided method using gold nanorods and a 980-nm laser to deliver the opsin MCO-020 to targeted ...

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering light-gated ...

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering light-gated ...

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine honours optogenetics, a technique rooted in algal research that is now transforming ...

Fifteen years ago, a genetically engineered rhodopsin-based voltage reporter called PROPS captured the first optical recordings of fast membrane-potential transients ...

Researchers have created a light-switchable morphine derivative that delivers potent, localized pain relief in preclinical models while avoiding addiction, tolerance, ...

A sweeping review reveals how dormant silent synapses are activated through coordinated molecular machinery, and how their failure or overactivation ...

New research in fruit flies shows that sleep pressure is encoded and enacted by a half-center oscillator of mutually inhibitory ...

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel share the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on light-gated ...

UC San Diego researchers showed that artificially activating just twenty selected neurons in the mouse motor cortex can trigger the ...

A new Nature Chemical Engineering review maps how synthetic biology and stimuli-responsive materials are converging to embed Boolean logic and ...