More halorhodopsin

Posted by Neville Sanjana at 12:48 AM EST

This week’s Nature has quite a few additional halorhodopsin articles for photochannel fans.

Halorhodopsin article from Deisseroth’s lab:
Multimodal fast optical interrogation of neural circuitry [News & Views]

Also, there is an intriguing article on both the general excitement in the neuroscience community with this new technology and a possible intellectual property dispute over it.

3 Responses to “More halorhodopsin”

  1. Bayle Says:

    arg i hate patents

  2. Anonymous Says:

    Some of the channelrhodopsin patents are also appearing on the web!
    here and here.

  3. neurodudes » Blog Archive » Vector manipulation meets Web2.0 Says:

    [...] reader (and optogeneticist) Feng Zhang has designed some vector manipulation tools that are freely available online. He writes [...]

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