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Synthetic Genome Engineering

We are currently developing novel DNA editing technologies to broaden the scope of genome engineering. Our strategy is based on identifyi...
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Design Fiction

Sparking discussion about the social, cultural, and ethical implications of emerging technologies through design and storytelling
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Sculpting Evolution

Exploring evolutionary and ecological engineering
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Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
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Responsive Science

Responsive Science is a way of conducting research that invites openness and community involvement from the earliest stages of each proje...
Article Research

David Kong at SB7.0

David Kong at the 7th International Meeting on Synthetic Biology
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Synthetic Neurobiology

Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations
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Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
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Expansion Pathology

Enlarging clinical samples for imaging to understand the building blocks of pathologies with nanoscale precision
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Evolutron: Deep Learning for Protein Design

Technological advances in the past decade have allowed us to take a close look at the proteomes of living organisms. As a result, more th...
Publication Research

Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation via Temporally Interfering Electric Fields

Grossman N, Bono D, Dedic N*, Kodandaramaiah SB*, Rudenko A, Suk HJ, Cassara AM, Neufeld E, Kuster N, Tsai LH, Pascual-Leone A, Boyden ES (2017) Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation via Temporally Interfering Electric Fields, Cell 169(6):1029-1041. (* equal contribution)
Publication Research

Optogenetics: Tools for Controlling and Monitoring Neuronal Activity

T. Knopfel and E. Boyden, eds. (2012) Optogenetics: Tools for Controlling and Monitoring Neuronal Activity, Progress in Brain Research, vol. 196, Elsevier.
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A noninvasive method for deep brain stimulation

Electrodes placed on the scalp could help patients with brain diseases.
Article Research

New electrical brain stimulation technique shows promise in mice

A team of neuroscientists and engineers has devised a method that might achieve the best of both worlds: skipping the surgery while reachin
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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Tools for Mapping the Molecular Structure of the Brain

Brain circuits are large, 3D structures. However, the building blocks—proteins, signaling complexes, synapses—are or...
Publication Research

Could we train bacteria to make themselves harmless?
Publication Research

Medical professionals offering innovative solutions to some of the industry’s most pressing problems
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Next-generation protein vaccines against infectious diseases

The gram-positive cocci Streptococcus pneumoniae causes pneumonia, otitis media, meningitis, and bacteremia in pediatric, elderly, and im...
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Preventing Tick-Borne Disease by Permanently Immunizing Mice

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically in...
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Antimicrobials to treat infectious diseases without leading to resistant bacteria

"Without urgent, coordinated action by many stakeholders, the world is headed for a post-antibiotic era, in which common infections and m...
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Open Source Estrogen

Biomolecules to biopolitics: hormones with institutional biopower! Open Source Estrogen combines do-it-yourself science, body and gender ...
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Prototype Strategies for Treating Brain Disorders

New technologies for recording neural activity, controlling neural activity, or building brain circuits, may be capable some day of servi...