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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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Illuminating pathogen-host intimacy through optogenetics.
PLoS Pathogens, 2018 The birth and subsequent evolution of optogenetics has resulted in an unprecedented advancement in our understanding of the brain. Its outstanding success does usher wider applications; however, the tool remains still largely relegated to neuroscience ...
Ruben Dario Arroyo-Olarte +3 more
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New insights into cochlear sound encoding [version 1; referees: 2 approved]
F1000Research, 2016 The inner ear uses specialized synapses to indefatigably transmit sound information from hair cells to spiral ganglion neurons at high rates with submillisecond precision.
Tobias Moser, Christian Vogl
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Single-Cell Resolution Optogenetics Via Expression of Soma-Targeted Rhodopsins
, 2022 Optogenetics allows control of neural activity in genetically targeted neuron populations by light. Optogenetic control of individual neurons in neural circuits would enable powerful, causal investigations of neural connectivity and function at single ...
Or A. Shemesh +9 more
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Science, 2009 An emerging set of methods enables an experimental dialogue with biological systems composed of many interacting cell types—in particular, with neural circuits in the brain. These methods are sometimes called “optogenetic” because they use light-responsive proteins (“opto-”) encoded in DNA (“-genetic”).
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Light‐Driven Quadrupedal Walking Biohybrid Robot With Antagonistic Muscle‐Rings and Inclined Joints
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This work presents a light‐driven quadrupedal walking biohybrid robot powered by antagonistic muscle‐rings that achieve alternating walking gait. Optical training improved reproducibility of cultured muscle tissues, while caffeine treatment enhanced contractile force.
Shotaro Saito +5 more
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Optogenetics: Applications in neurobiology [PDF]
, 2017 Commonly used neuromodulation techniques such as electrical stimulation or pharmacologic intervention have some technical limitations that preclude dissecting particular cell- or pathway-specific functions in the brain, which is composed of billions ...
Maria Mikhailova +7 more
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XeraBorg: Neural Control of Tail‐Flick Escape for Backward Propulsion in Cyborg Crayfish
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This work presents the first controlled tail‐flick propulsion method for the cyborg Cherax quadricarinatus. Comprehensive experiments establish a foundational framework for using the crayfish's natural escape mechanism as a locomotion strategy, expanding its potential as an underwater and amphibious mobile robot.
H. Nhan Le +7 more
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MRI-guided robotic arm drives optogenetic fMRI with concurrent Ca2+ recording
Nature Communications, 2019 Fiber optic implantation in deep areas of the rodent’s brain for MRI combined with optogenetics is challenging. Here the authors use an MRI-guided robotic arm as the navigation method for accurate fiber optic placement and precise microinjection during ...
Yi Chen +4 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gonadotropin‐inhibitory hormone (GnIH, also known as RFamide‐related peptide‐3, RFRP‐3) is a hypothalamic neuropeptide that regulates vertebrate reproduction via its receptor GPR147. Although GnIH is known to mediate stress‐induced reproductive suppression, its role in broader stress responses remains unclear.
Jiani Zhang +18 more
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