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Enlightenment: Optogenetic Tools for Understanding the Brain

Neuroscientists are scrambling to play with the new toys of optogenetic technology, but with the explosion of popular science articles and even videos of light-controlled dancing mice (1), it is important to step back and evaluate how this technology can be most effectively used to solve meaningful problems in neuroscience.

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Engineering New method for small animal molecular imaging developed Thayer School of Engineering professor Brian Pogue and his research team introduced a new small animal imaging system that…

Molecular Manufacturing: Social and Ethical Considerations

Henry Ford’s assembly line changed the entire concept of manufacturing. With it, his factory was able to produce cars faster, cheaper, and more consistently than anyone else. In…

X-Ray Crystallography

X-ray crystallography stems from a desire to find seemingly invisible internal order. Eighteenth century crystallographer Rene Just Hauy first identified the foundational notion that external symmetry is linked…

Biofilms: Bacteria’s Elixer of Survival

In terms of biomass and prevalence in various environments, bacteria are the most successful forms of life (1). Among bacteria’s numerous remarkable survival mechanisms are biofilms. From human…