Fixed by light

• Autores: Teal Burrell
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3079, 2016, págs. 38-41
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Ed Boyden was a graduate student at Stanford University when he sparked a revolution. It was August 2004, 10 o'clock in the morning, and he was still in the lab, peering down a microscope at a single nerve cell. Curious to see how it would react, he flashed a blue light at it. Instantly, it fired. It was a defining moment, the birth of a technique that would revolutionize the study of brains and behavior. Here, Burrell discusses how soon people could cure blindness, pain and brain diseases all at the flick of a switch.