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.
In a still-unfolding investigation, Machines Francaises Lourdes (MLF) of France (formerly Forest-Line) evidently transferred highly sophisticated machine tools to the USSR.
In software terms, we now have so many collaboration tools available to us that we are lost in the forest of possibilities of what to use when and for what.