There were those who warned him that the method would not work in a living brain, but Prof. Ofer Yazar chose to join a small lab at Stanford, where they learned to activate neurons with light. This week his mentor, Prof. Karl Deisseroth, won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. In an interview he returns to the messages at three in the morning and to the experiment that sent him running to the office, explains how optogenetics changed brain research, and talks about his current work and the hope to understand how thought is generated.
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