Earlier this week, Ed Boyden of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology received the inaugural A. F. Harvey Engineering Research Prize. The £300,000 prize was awarded to him by the Institution of Engineering and Technology, for his contribution to the development of optogenetics. This powerful technique involves introducing light-sensitive algal proteins into specific subsets of neurons, enabling them to be controlled with unprecedented precision using pulses of laser light. theguardian/science/neurophilosophy/2012/jun/23/1
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