{"id":243705,"date":"2026-09-05T21:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T02:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/the-race-to-engineer-new-knobs-for-the-human-brain"},"modified":"2026-09-05T21:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T02:02:23","slug":"the-race-to-engineer-new-knobs-for-the-human-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/the-race-to-engineer-new-knobs-for-the-human-brain","title":{"rendered":"The race to engineer new knobs for the human brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-race-to-engineer-new-knobs-for-the-human-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An excellent overview and analysis by Patrick Mineault on the exciting news that 7 chemogenetics clinical trials have begun in China! I very much hope that these trials show enough promise that they stimulate further work in this area.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Spotlight on DREADDs and chemogenetics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excellent overview and analysis by Patrick Mineault on the exciting news that 7 chemogenetics clinical trials have begun in China! I very much hope that these trials show enough promise that they stimulate further work in this area. Spotlight on DREADDs and chemogenetics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243705","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\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}