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David Kong at SB7.0

David Kong at the 7th International Meeting on Synthetic Biology

Sparking discussion about the social, cultural, and ethical implications of emerging technologies through design and storytelling

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Synthetic Neurobiology

Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations

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Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection

Post Research

Expansion Pathology

Enlarging clinical samples for imaging to understand the building blocks of pathologies with nanoscale precision

Project Research

Responsive Science

Responsive Science is a way of conducting research that invites openness and community involvement from the earliest stages of each proje...

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Sculpting Evolution

Exploring evolutionary and ecological engineering

Project Research

Evolutron: Deep Learning for Protein Design

Technological advances in the past decade have allowed us to take a close look at the proteomes of living organisms. As a result, more th...

Publication Research

Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation via Temporally Interfering Electric Fields

Grossman N, Bono D, Dedic N*, Kodandaramaiah SB*, Rudenko A, Suk HJ, Cassara AM, Neufeld E, Kuster N, Tsai LH, Pascual-Leone A, Boyden ES (2017) Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation via Temporally Interfering Electric Fields, Cell 169(6):1029-1041. (* equal contribution)

Publication Research

Optogenetics: Tools for Controlling and Monitoring Neuronal Activity

T. Knopfel and E. Boyden, eds. (2012) Optogenetics: Tools for Controlling and Monitoring Neuronal Activity, Progress in Brain Research, vol. 196, Elsevier.