It’s an interview which does cover what he’s worked on and what he’s working on now. I’d recommend actually reading TFA but here’s a sample of what he did: > I

It’s an interview which does cover what he’s worked on and what he’s working on now. I’d recommend actually reading TFA but here’s a sample of what he did: > In my final year as a postdoc, I genetically engineered mice to have gentle touch neurons that responded to blue light. My plan was to stimulate the neurons with blue light and see what the mice did. > When I started my own lab in 2018, we were ready to start those experiments. I still remember the day the students came into my office to show me what they had found. It was like this eureka moment. When we activated neurons through the skin on the mice’s backs, the animals behaved as if they were being stroked there. That launched the whole project. We did a lot more behavioral tests and traced the pathway for social touch from the skin to the spinal cord to the reward centers in the brain.