{"id":115115,"date":"2020-10-26T11:22:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T18:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/no-implants-needed-for-precise-control-deep-into-the-brain"},"modified":"2020-10-26T11:22:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T18:22:57","slug":"no-implants-needed-for-precise-control-deep-into-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/no-implants-needed-for-precise-control-deep-into-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"No Implants Needed For Precise Control Deep Into The Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/no-implants-needed-for-precise-control-deep-into-the-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is kind of a nice bookend to 16 years of research,\u201d says Deisseroth, a neuroscientist and bioengineer at Stanford University. \u201cIt took years and years for us to sort out how to make it work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe result is described this month in the journal Nature Biotechnology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOptogenetics involves genetically engineering animal brains to express light-sensitive proteins\u2014called opsins\u2014in the membranes of neurons.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Optogenetics can now control neural circuits at unprecedented depths within living brain tissue without surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is kind of a nice bookend to 16 years of research,\u201d says Deisseroth, a neuroscientist and bioengineer at Stanford University. \u201cIt took years and years for us to sort out how to make it work.\u201d \u201cThe result is described this month in the journal Nature Biotechnology.\u201d \u201cOptogenetics involves genetically engineering animal brains to express [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}