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A 29-Year-Old CEO Who's Shaking Up Diagnostics & Other Stories From The 2019 Healthcare 30 Under 30

Biomechatronics researcher Tyler Clites and Synthetic Neurobiology researcher Fei Chen are among the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees.
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Ed Boyden on "How to invent game-changing technologies"

Neuroscientist Ed Boyden discussing two inventions of his that have revolutionized neuroscience: optogenetics and expansion microscopy.
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Ed Boyden at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Symposium—Brains and Behavior
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10+ years of Human 2.0

Revisit Human 2.0, a 2007 Media Lab symposium focused on the future of human adaptability.
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Optogenetics: understanding the brain, one flash of light at a time

A powerful tool to excite neurons using light is helping researchers to map the brain’s connections.
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Congratulations to Ed Boyden on being inducted as an AIMBE Fellow

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows honors those who have made out…
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Ed Boyden receives 2018 Canada Gairdner International Award

MIT scientist is among three recognized for the discovery of optogenetics.
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Archon: A fluorescent voltage indicator for imaging neural activity

Fluorescent sensor allows imaging of neurons' electrical communications, without electrodes
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Tiny implant opens way to deliver drugs deep into the brain

Scientists have created a hair-thin implant that can drip medications deep into the brain by remote control and with pinpoint precision.
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Next-generation optogenetic molecules control single neurons

Focused laser beam could help scientists map connections among neurons that underlie behavior
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Ed Boyden and optogenetics: The future of neuroscience

Eric Topol, editor-in-chief of Medscape, interviews Synthetic Neurobiology head Ed Boyden.
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Robotic Patch Clamping Gains Eyes

Patch clamping, a method that allows scientists to study the electrical activity of single cells, is one of the oldest tools in the neurosc…
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Robotic system monitors specific neurons

Success rate is comparable to that of highly trained scientists performing the process manually
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A bionic man: Hugh Herr strides forward on next-generation robotic legs

You’ll likely hear Hugh Herr before you see him.The charismatic leader of MIT’s biomechatronics research group wears two next-generation pr…
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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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Some amazing facts about your unbelievable brain

Why was Einstein’s brain so good at some things and not others? Why is yours?
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New approach to amputation could reduce phantom pain

The technique, tested in rodents, could yield better sensation and control of prosthetic limbs
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Bringing sensation to bionic limbs
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Iterative Expansion Microscopy

High-resolution imaging with conventional microscopes:Tissue-expansion technique could allow scientists to map brain circuits.
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Optogenetics: Hardware Enabling Neural Control by Light

We have developed a set of "optogenetic" reagents: fully genetically encoded reagents that, when targeted to specific …
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