Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . New technology like optogenetics, which uses the application of light to genetically modify target cells, offers ...

Do dragonflies see like humans? Researchers discovered dragonflies use a red-sensing opsin identical to mammals. This study ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Optogenetic stimulation of the retina with a treatment combining injection of photoactivatable channelrhodopsin ...

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 ...

As a child, Max Hodak learned to develop film in a darkroom with his grandfather who was almost blind. Hodak's grandfather had retinitis pigmentosa, a congenital disease that affects one out of every ...

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 ...

This breakthrough connects insect vision to human biology and could advance optogenetics, enabling new treatments using light to target cells deep within the body.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers combined AI and optogenetics to diagnose and slow Parkinson’s-like disease. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) A South Korean ...

In what could one day become a new treatment for epilepsy, researchers at UC San Francisco, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Berkeley have used pulses of light to prevent seizure-like activity in neurons. The ...

Using optogenetics, researchers used pulses of light to prevent seizure-like activity in neurons. This is the first use of optogenetics to modulate seizure activity at the network level in human brain ...