Optogenetics researcher develops wireless brain stimulator

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Optogenetics researcher develops wireless brain stimulator

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(Medical Xpress) -- In a major step forward in optogenetics, MIT researcher Christian Wentz has developed a sort of wireless hat that can be used to transmit light to photo sensitized cells in the brain, thus stimulating them to fire when struck by light, or to cease firing, whichever has been programmed ...

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medicalxpress.com — “(Medical Xpress) -- In the last couple of years scientists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research have developed new strategies to stimulate individual brain cells with light. Optogenetic technologies were named 'Method of the Year' by the leading scientific journal Nature Methods ...View full resource at medicalxpress.com

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