Studying social behavior is crucial for understanding how certain neuromodulatory pathways—like the serotonin pathway, which influences mood and social interactions—are regulated. Kavita Babu, ...

Innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning and optogenetics are accelerating discoveries in life sciences, especially in the field of neuroscience. A new ...

Have you ever wondered how the brain is able to see things that are not really there? A hallucination is a perception formed without external stimuli. Last week, neuroscientists at the Stanford ...

The 200-liter run is also the first demonstration of optogenetics in a stainless-steel bioreactor. The milestone highlights the company’s ability to deliver optogenetics benefits to biopharma partners ...

A project at UC San Francisco, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Berkeley has employed optogenetics to study the mechanisms of epilepsy, and to indicate possible routes to future treatment. The optics-based ...