Interview: Ed Boyden on Optogenetics, Neuroscience, and the Future of Neuroengineering
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Blog Post
Published
March 4, 2014, 4:49 p.m.
...and what it can enable?
Boyden: There are many examples where you want to activate two sets of neurons...humanistic and philosophical implications. As an example, a group at Caltech used an optical fiber together... to treat patients? Over a quarter of a million people have some kind of neural implant already. If we...Those are two of the biggest ones. And as a third example, it would be helpful to have molecules with better...three or four hour conversation. The brain is very complex and we've hosted hundreds of visitors in our lab... different from a cell in a dish. I always tell people, 'Be driven by your science.'
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