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Imaging the World’s Brightest Luminescent Protein
www.photometrics.com Photometrics Customer Profile BACKGROUND Optogenetics is revolutionizing the field of behavioral neuroscience by enabling researchers to control the activity of individual neurons and measure the effects of those manipulations. Introduced in 2006, it was selected as Nature Methods’ “Method of the Year” only four years later. Today, hundreds of labs are using the technique to ex