Increasing the presence of a naturally occurring molecule helps illuminate pathways for improving brain imaging and the ...

Biomedical and genetic engineers at Duke University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have developed a technique ...

A KAIST research team led by Professor Won Do Heo (Department of Biological Sciences) has developed an optogenetic platform, ...

Researchers have developed an optogenetics platform that enables precise spatiotemporal control over the storage and release ...

More information: Jun Zhang et al, Modular Photoswitchable Molecular Glues for Chemo‐Optogenetic Control of Protein Function in Living Cells, Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2025).

However, with the optogenetic platform developed in Wilson’s lab, which uses light to create “virtual stress” without actually causing trauma to the cells, biomedicine has come much closer to ...

A research group at Umeå University has developed new advanced light-controlled tools that enable precise control of proteins in real time in living cells. This groundbreaking research opens ...

"Synthetic biology tools like optogenetics allow us to precisely tune complex cellular processes, something traditional drug screening cannot do," said Maxwell Wilson, Ph.D., Co-Founder and Chief ...

To test this hypothesis, the researchers used pharmacological and optogenetic tools to regulate these two dopamine pathways. They found that lowering dopamine-related proteins in the NAc of low ...

A research group at Umeå University has developed new advanced light-controlled tools that enable precise control of proteins in real time in living cells. This groundbreaking research opens ...

UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators from campus biotech spinoff Integrated Biosciences, as well as Harvard, MIT, Princeton and genomics company Illumina Ventures are using optogenetics ...