Health & Medicine4 min read
How light became a tool for studying the brain
Karl Deisseroth helped pioneer optogenetics, now used in thousands of labs worldwide to study how nerve-cell activity shapes behavior.
By The Elements of Statistical Learning by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman Blog
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Originally published by The Elements of Statistical Learning by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman Blog on Oct 5, 2026.
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