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Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis say they created a fiber-optic device that can manipulate neural activity ...

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Fiber-optic technology revolutionized the telecommunications industry and may soon do the same for brain research.

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Optics and photonics is the study of the fundamental properties of light and harnessing them in practical applications. Optics and photonics covers the entire electromagnetic spectrum from high-energy ...

A team of researchers from Washington University in St. Louis' McKelvey School of Engineering and WashU Medicine has ...