Edward S. Boyden, a member of MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the Media Lab, and an associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences and biological engineering at MIT, has been ...

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 ...

Ed Boyden is associate 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 ...

Scientists in the United States have developed a powerful new method to help calm the abnormal brain activity associated with diseases such as epilepsy and Parkinson's. The technique involves the use ...

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 ...

MIT researcher Ed Boyden (left) and Georgia Tech researchers Suhasa Kodandaramaia (seated) and Craig Forest have developed a way to automate the process of finding and recording information from ...

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 ...