A new technique, dubbed magnetogenetics, has now provided a way to control cells by combining magnetic manipulation with their their own machinery for stabilizing new extensions. Techniques like this ...

Magnetogenetics has just emerged as a way to noninvasively activate neurons. The technology involves fusing or targeting the iron-binding protein ferritin to TRP channels in the neuronal membrane. A ...

They also will continue to explore and optimize the magnetogenetics technology itself. "Being able now to do directional manipulations of brain activity with this relatively simple system is going to ...

The cells of our bodies aren't just featureless bags of proteins. Many of them have distinctive shapes and structures that are essential to their function. Neurons, for example, extend processes away ...

Several recent studies in high-profile journals reported to have genetically engineered neurons to become responsive to magnetic fields. In doing so, the authors could remotely control the activity of ...

Magnetic fields to control neurons remotely? A cutting-edge technology, magnetogenetics, now allows the inhibition or activation of brain circuits in mice remotely, without implants. Scientists at ...

Some scientists claim they can control genetically engineered neurons using magnetic fields. Have they and the high-profile journals that published their research failed to understand basic physics?

The team also tested out the approach in live zebrafish larvae, expressing the Magneto protein in neurons that control the animals’ escape response. Sure enough, exposing the fish to a magnetic field ...