Watson and Crick, Schrödinger and Einstein all made theoretical breakthroughs that have changed the world's understanding of science. Today big, game-changing ideas are less common. New and improved ...

What the scientists had was a lab version of The Dog That Didn’t Bark — or, if Sherlock Holmes were chronicling the experiment, The Mice That Didn’t Freeze. One at a time, the 20 mice went into a ...

Triplett and his colleagues assessed the potential of their holographic optogenetics technique in a series of tests and their results were very promising. In fact, they found that their approach could ...

Optogenetics is a technique used for the study of neural circuits in the brain. It is a branch of biotechnology that combines genetics and optical techniques to conceive and control a specific neural ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American When asked about my style of journalism, I ...

A new paper in Oxford Open Neuroscience, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that optogenetics, suggested as a promising treatment for many psychological and neurological conditions, may ...

The revolution that optogenetics technology has brought to biology -- neuroscience in particular -- could be transformed all over again if a new project getting underway at Brown University and ...

A new study uses optogenetics and roflumilast to prove sleep deprivation blocks memory retrieval, not storage.

An irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia, leads to inefficient pumping of blood by the heart, which then prevents blood and ...

The optogenetic revolution is transforming neuroscience. The dramatic recent progress in using light to both control and read out neural activity has highlighted the need for better probes, improved ...

A 58-year-old man who has been blind for years now sees well enough to make out shapes, including the white lines of a crosswalk. The advancement comes thanks to a technology called “optogenetics,” a ...