"We gave it a try in neurons and it worked the first time, " said Dr. Boyden.
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Boyden's Mr. Hertlein says corporate boards sometimes hire his company to find candidates to replace a burned-out CEO.
Today at least 600 university labs are furiously pursuing the technology, which Deisseroth and Boyden have freely shared.
Ed Boyden of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is well-known for this technique.
For Ed Boyden, a neuroscientist at MIT, looking for genes allows him to figure out what experiments to conduct.
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Dog's Trust veterinary director Paula Boyden said: "It's one of those situations where we have to keep reinforcing that message".
Boyden told him about his own work in neuroscience, and about a problem that involved glass tubes for measuring neurons.
Taking advantage of that find, Dr. Deisseroth and Dr. Boyden attached the gene to a virus that targets brain cells.
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Since then Deisseroth and Boyden have discovered other microbial proteins that can be used to turn brain cells off with light.
The idea of controlling brain cells with light "captured our imagination, " recalls Boyden, who now runs his own lab at MIT.
At time of writing Mr Boyden, who put the bill online on Monday night, had not visibly mentioned the apology on Facebook himself.
Forest didn't know anything about neuroscience, but he and colleagues "had a lot of expertise in how to build great devices, " Boyden said.
The man's son-in-law, Jim Boyden, posted a photograph of the bill, along with a message addressed to Virgin Media, on the social media network.
The report, compiled by Peter Boyden, said there was no large-scale producing theatre for adults in the south Wales urban belt that encompasses two-thirds of the Welsh population.
The idea that you could silence or activate neurons with light is a powerful one in combination with the tools that Boyden and Forest are working on together.
"Firms are thinking long and hard about who they want in these roles, " said Jeanne Branthover, head of the global financial institutions practice at Boyden, an executive-search firm.
It's obvious how much respect Boyden has for his collaborators.
Boyden and Forest, working with Forest's graduate student Suhasa Kodandaramaiah, developed a robotic system to record activity of a single neuron in the living brain using a tiny glass tube.
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"They want to really characterize the parts list of the brain and map all its circuits to see how they connect and communicate, " said neurobiologist Ed Boyden at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"About a thousand groups are using these right now to study the brain because it lets you turn on one cell, or one kind of cell, and figure out what it does, " Boyden said.
When Boyden arrived at Georgia Tech in February to give a lecture in the "Young Innovators" series, his puffy North Face jacket, slightly tousled curly locks and frizzy beard contrasted with Forest's pressed suit, lilac collared shirt and short salt-and-pepper hair -- almost like an Apple vs.
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