Ed Boyden heads the Synthetic Neurobiology Group at MIT Media Lab. He is working on developing technologies and tools for “analysing and engineering brain circuits” – to reveal which brain neurons are involved in different cognitive processes and using this knowledge to treat brain disorders.
What is synthetic neurobiology?
The synthetic biology part is about taking molecules from the natural world and figuring how to make them into little machines that we can use to address complex brain problems.
Moreover, if we can synthesise the computation of the brain and write information to it, that allows us to test our understanding of the brain and fix disorders by controlling the process within – running a piece of software on the brain as if it is a computer.
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