Now, by using optogenetics to investigate the effect of the therapy in the brains of traumatized rats, a team led by researchers at the Institute for Basic Science in South Korea has discovered ...

Targeting similar sets of neurons in the two groups of rats produced two different outcomes in their behavior. Increasing ...

Studies reveal important principles through which the brainstem regulates satiation, and begin to shed light on the neural determinants of meal size.

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. But a report in STAT News today (September 1) reveals that a Wayne State researcher by the name of Zhuo-Hua Pan actually got optogenetics to work ...

To illustrate the process, I decided to write a case study about the birth and development of an innovation with which I have been intimately involved: optogenetics—a toolset of genetically encoded ...