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To add: anything to do with optogenetics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optogenetics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optogenetics TLDR: Input the genes into a n
by Balgair 4y ago
To add: anything to do with optogenetics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optogenetics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optogenetics
TLDR: Input the genes into a nerve cell and now you can fire the nerves with light pulses.
- iamwizard 4y agoThe even crazier thing about opto is that it's old hat at this point. You can teach an attentive undergraduate lab assistant to do it and a sizeable portion of labs working with any animal short of a primate did or does use it to address questions.
- Balgair 4y agoCare to share the 'new hat' methods?
- iamwizard 4y agoReally depends on what kind of work you're doing. CRISPR, flexible high-density microelectrodes, scRNA-seq, etc. are all borderline magic compared to the average understanding of biology. I just remember being awed by opto around a decade ago and now it's just a tool that labs have. Which isn't to say there's not cutting edge opto.