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Neuroengineering blog by a pro

Category: LinksNeuroscienceTechnology
Posted on: September 29, 2007 1:51 PM, by Mo

Ed Boyden, leader of the Neuroengineering and Neuromedia Group at MIT, has just started a blog.

I wrote about some of Boyden's work earlier this year. His is one of several groups that have used a light-sensitive bacterial protein called channelrhodopsin to develop an "optical switch" that can activate or inhibit neurons.

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