Quote Biotech & medicine· Oct 5, 2026

Optogenetics uses light to cause cellular events

We’re not using light to collect information, we’re using light to cause things to happen … it’s using light to turn cells on or off with that millisecond precision and the cellular resolution that is essential to brain function.

after Nobel announcement

Karl DeisserothHoward Hughes Medical Institute and Stanford University · professor

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