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RE: Optogenetics – A comprehensive guide
Bring it on! I want more.
There are some typos: bellow" and "Conclussions"
So far it has been applied to control activity of neurons in vitro and also in vivo to understand how activity of certain neurons affects behaviour.
You many want to change this sentence as although optogenetics has mainly been used to control the activity of neurons, there are other light controlled proteins for genetic applications, for example killing specific cells with light and light controlled protein-protein interaction and cell signal transduction. There are others but you get the idea and maybe you could be described them in your future posts.
Cheers!
Love genetics!
ian
I am happy that you liked the article and thanks for those corrections - have to work on those double letters a bit, haha.
And thanks for the suggestions! Yes, I am aware about these kind of non-standard applications of optogenetics and actually already wrote a bit about them. For example the use of optogenetics to kill cancer cells, or activation of gene expression with light and even the application of optogenetics to control heart cells. But thanks for the links you provided- the papers look really interesting!
BTW, great feedback - I always love to hear what can be done better. :)
You have probably seen this one too but just in case: Photoactivatable CRISPR-Cas9 for optogenetic genome editing.. The combination of two very cool applications in science.
Cheers!
And good luck with your research!
I actually did not read this one! :) Thanks for sharing.
Even though I had the chance to work both with CRISPR/Cas9 and optogenetics I never thought about combining them, haha :D
Once again, thanks!