Interview: Ed Boyden on Optogenetics, Neuroscience, and the Future of Neuroengineering
Type
Blog Post
Published
March 4, 2014, 4:49 p.m.
...As MIT's Ed Boyden explains it, his goal is "to understand the brain at a level of abstraction that enables...opsin from algae that is sensitive to red light instead of blue, which will allow researchers to independently...cells within them work together or perhaps compete against each other. Getting two-color stimulation has been...maybe we could treat patients suffering from Parkinson's, chronic pain, deafness, or other conditions....