Ed Boyden, PhD, is a professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at the MIT Media Lab and the MIT McGovern Institute. He leads the Synthetic Neurobiology Group, which develops ...

Neurological disorders have been historically difficult to treat due to the intractable nature of the brain and nervous system. However, synthetic biology enables scientists to develop technologies ...

The optogenetic toolset is composed of genetically encoded molecules that, when targeted to specific neurons in the brain, enable the electrical activity of those neurons to be driven or silenced by ...

Edward Boyden of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Albert-Laszlo Barabasi of Northeastern University will use expansion microscopy of C. elegans, combined with live imaging and computational ...

Fluorescence imaging offers a window onto the dynamics of individual molecules within cells, thanks to ability of genetically encoded fluorophore probes to emit light when specific biochemical changes ...

Spatially resolved transcriptomics, which Nature Methods named as its Method of the Year for 2020, allows researchers to look at transcriptional activity while preserving the spatial relationship of ...