{"id":99950,"date":"2019-12-19T22:44:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T06:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/engineers-develop-a-less-invasive-way-to-study-the-brain"},"modified":"2019-12-19T22:44:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T06:44:29","slug":"engineers-develop-a-less-invasive-way-to-study-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/engineers-develop-a-less-invasive-way-to-study-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Engineers develop a less invasive way to study the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-develop-a-less-invasive-way-to-study-the-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Optogenetics, a tool for controlling neurons with light, has given neuroscientists the ability to flip brain cells on and off more or less at will, revolutionizing neuroscience.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the technique faces a fundamental challenge: To study all but the outermost part of the brain, researchers need to implant fiber optics or other invasive devices to deliver <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light<\/a> deep into the brain.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i>, Stanford researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.1914387116\">report<\/a> that they\u2019ve found a less invasive way to do so: injectable nanoparticles that convert <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/sound+waves\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sound waves<\/a>, which can easily penetrate into the brain, into light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Optogenetics, a tool for controlling neurons with light, has given neuroscientists the ability to flip brain cells on and off more or less at will, revolutionizing neuroscience. Yet the technique faces a fundamental challenge: To study all but the outermost part of the brain, researchers need to implant fiber optics or other invasive devices to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,4,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99950","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}