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Karl Deisseroth
Karl Deisseroth is a noted contributor to Encyclopaedia Britannica online. Read Britannica's biography of Karl Deisseroth
BIOGRAPHY

D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry, Stanford University. Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Primary Contributions (1)
Know how polymer fibers can help to deliver optical signals or drugs directly into the brain and record the activity in the neurons
Optogenetics, experimental method in biological research involving the combination of optics and genetics in technologies that are designed to control (by eliciting or inhibiting) well-defined events in cells of living animal tissue. Unlike previously developed experimental methods of light…
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