Karl Deisseroth
Karl Deisseroth is a noted contributor to Encyclopaedia Britannica online. Read Britannica's biography of Karl Deisseroth
D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry, Stanford University. Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Recipient of the 2026 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
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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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