Interview: Ed Boyden on Optogenetics, Neuroscience, and the Future of Neuroengineering
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...As MIT's Ed Boyden explains it, his goal is "to understand the brain at a level of abstraction that enables... fix it when things go awry. To reach that goal, his group develops tools to tinker with brain circuits... article published in Nature Methods, Boyden and his team describe the discovery of a light-sensitive ...optogenetics advance, the big questions that motivate his interest in neuroengineering, and some of the optogenetic...