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Ed Boyden is learning how to alter behavior by using light to turn neurons on and off.
In his MIT lab, Ed Boyden studies how photosensitive proteins can be used to affect the workings of the brain.
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In his MIT lab, Ed Boyden studies how photosensitive proteins can be used to affect the workings of the brain.
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Forbes

In a piece for Forbes, Josh Wolfe interviews Prof. Edward Boyden about his work with optogenetics and his new research at MIT. “I’m very excited about these new kinds of microscopes that we’re building that allow you to map all the neural activity in a complete organism,” says Boyden of his current work. 

WBUR

Carey Goldberg of WBUR features Prof. Ed Boyden’s optogenetics research in a segment on neuroscience advances. “We might be in a golden age of making such tools because most fields of engineering had not been applied to the brain, so there’s just a gold rush of possibility,” says Boyden.

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