Thursday, May 3, 2018

UChicago researchers lay out how to control biology with light -- without genetics

05/03/2018 12:07 PM EDT

thin layer of silicon lace

Over the past five years, University of Chicago chemist Bozhi Tian has been figuring out how to control biology with light. In a paper published April 30 in Nature Biomedical Engineering, Tian's team laid out a system of design principles for working with silicon to control biology at three levels -- from individual organelles inside cells to tissues to entire limbs.


Full story at https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2018/04/30/researchers-lay-out-how-control-biology-lightwithout-help-genetics

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