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Tagging activated neurons with light

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Two new protein tools translate neuronal activity into gene expression during a light-defined time window.

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Figure 1: During animal behavior, specific neurons within a neural circuit are activated.

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  1. Department of Biology and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Dheeraj S. Roy, Teruhiro Okuyama and Susumu Tonegawa are at the RIKEN–MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,

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  2. Susumu Tonegawa is also at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,

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Roy, D., Okuyama, T. & Tonegawa, S. Tagging activated neurons with light. Nat Biotechnol 35, 827–828 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3954

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