Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University, Gero Miesenböck of the University of Oxford and Edward S. Boyden of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been awarded Brandeis University's 16th ...

Ed Boyden, PhD, is a professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at the MIT Media Lab and the MIT McGovern Institute. He leads the Synthetic Neurobiology Group, which develops ...

THE brain is a complex network of some 86 billion neurons. To find out how they operate, we need to be able to record the activity of these cells. That is why the methods developed by neuroscientist ...

In biology, seeing can lead to understanding, and researchers in Professor Edward Boyden's lab at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research are committed to bringing life into sharper focus. With a ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Using a fluorescent probe that lights up when brain cells are electrically active, MIT and Boston University researchers have shown that they can image the activity of many neurons at ...

Carnegie Mellon University will award the third annual Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences to Ed Boyden, associate professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at ...

I lead the Synthetic Neurobiology Group at MIT. We are inventing new tools for analyzing and engineering brain circuits. We are using our inventions to enable systematic approaches to neuroscience, ...

Four of the world’s leading exponents of optogenetics - the use of light to monitor and stimulate brain cells - have won the 2019 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize for medical research. The award, often ...

One of the biggest challenges in neuroscience is having the ability to observe the brain’s neuronal activity across different brain regions in live, awake mammals. Exciting progress has been made ...

New types of brain probes could literally shed a different light on the internal workings of the brain. That was the message delivered by Ed Boyden, a researcher at the MIT Media Lab, during today's ...