The race to engineer new knobs for the human brain
- I almost dropped my phone when I saw the news that chemogenetics was in human clinical trials.
- Chemogenetics is a powerful technique that modifies specific neurons so they can be controlled remotely by normally inert drugs.
- Bryan Roth, one of the technique’s inventors, told the BRAIN Initiative conference audience on August 13th1 that he had found seven ongoing clinical trials of chemogenetics in China.
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- I almost dropped my phone when I saw the news that chemogenetics was in human clinical trials.
- Chemogenetics is a powerful technique that modifies specific neurons so they can be controlled remotely by normally inert drugs.
- Bryan Roth, one of the technique’s inventors, told the BRAIN Initiative conference audience on August 13th1 that he had found seven ongoing clinical trials of chemogenetics in China.
Sources: Neuroai