Nestler, Deisseroth and company have now essentially used optogenetics to replicate Mayberg's work in mice, and it seems to have worked. Their target — a particular area in the mouse's ventral ...

Seven years prior, Deisseroth and his colleagues demonstrated the ability to activate individual neurons in live and alert mice. This recent study represents a leap forward in optogenetics.

have succeeded for the first time in controlling the function of sperm by optogenetics. They inserted a light-activated enzyme for cAMP synthesis into mouse sperm that lacked the endogenous enzyme.

But when, for instance, the neurons that had fired in response to a vertical bar were stimulated with optogenetics, the mice were better able to correctly make out the hazy image of the vertical bar.

Now, researchers led by Takeshi Iwatsubo at the University of Tokyo have deployed optogenetics to selectively amplify neuronal ... For one, when people engage in specific cognitive tasks, activation ...

Dispensing with the optical fibers that the original optogenetics needs to carry light to brain neurons, they simply shined light onto lab mice’s skulls. The targeted neurons fired at ...

The scientists put this new technology to work in experiments where the mice were able to look and behave like normal, enabling them to conduct the first optogenetics study of social interactions ...

There are a couple different ways to use optogenetics, but this paper used a particularly precise method. You start by genetically engineering mice to express an enzyme called Cre—only in the ...

and on mice using the optogenetics technique, in order to get a better understanding of how light stimulation works." Optogenetics: a recent, highly promising technique Discovered in the mid 2000 ...

(Credit: Jimmy Ravier) Optogenetics – a technique that uses light to control ... encapsulates miniaturized LEDs that can be switched on and off on the surface of a mouse’s spinal cord. A miniature ...

Seven years prior, Deisseroth and his colleagues demonstrated the ability to activate individual neurons in live and alert mice. This recent study represents a leap forward in optogenetics.

They inserted a light-activated enzyme for cAMP synthesis into mouse sperm that lacked the ... as fundamental as fertilisation with light. Optogenetics has thus conquered another field outside ...