Implant Controls Overactive Bladder Using LED Lights

While very effective in many patients, electrical stimulation can lead to inflammation, produce unwanted sensations and pain, and injure fragile tissues. Optogenetics is an approach that offers an alternative, potentially safer option, that relies on light and light sensitive proteins to activate individual neural cells. To help make it a practical reality, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Northwestern University worked...

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