{"id":152321,"date":"2022-12-09T19:23:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T01:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/using-light-to-manipulate-neuron-excitability"},"modified":"2022-12-09T19:23:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T01:23:52","slug":"using-light-to-manipulate-neuron-excitability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/using-light-to-manipulate-neuron-excitability","title":{"rendered":"Using Light to Manipulate Neuron Excitability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/using-light-to-manipulate-neuron-excitability.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: A new optogenetics-based technique allows researchers to control neuron excitability.<\/p>\n<p>Source: MIT<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 20 years ago, scientists developed ways to stimulate or silence neurons by shining light on them. This technique, known as optogenetics, allows researchers to discover the functions of specific neurons and how they communicate with other neurons to form circuits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: A new optogenetics-based technique allows researchers to control neuron excitability. Source: MIT Nearly 20 years ago, scientists developed ways to stimulate or silence neurons by shining light on them. This technique, known as optogenetics, allows researchers to discover the functions of specific neurons and how they communicate with other neurons to form circuits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152321","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}