Neuroengineering and the MIT TR35 innovators
Today MIT’s Technology Review magazine released its annual list of innovators under the age of 35 who were nominated for recognition. Interestingly, almost a full quarter are doing work relating to or impacting the field of neuroengineering — including ways to tag synapses with quantum dots, activate neurons remotely, improve machine vision, classify whole-brain states for prosthetic purposes, and make nanowire arrays.
http://www.technologyreview.com/TR35/
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September 10th, 2006 at 10:53 pm
I should add that for the channelrhodopsin fans, there’s a guy mentioned in the TR35 who is using ChR to turn on bacterial genes:
A vision in bacteria: Chris Voigt
September 10th, 2006 at 11:13 pm
I think it’s a slightly different, but related, photoreceptor. It’s a phytochrome that operates by altering its own propensity for autophosphorylation.