Development of a Wireless-Controlled LED Array for the Tunable Optogenetic Control of Cellular Activities

In order to decipher a complex biological process, tools are required to perturb the various players involved to gain information about the important parameters. Optogenetic modules are genetically encoded molecular reagents that, when expressed in cells, allow a specific biological process to be precisely controlled by light in a spatiotemporal manner [1]. Optogenetics thus offers cell biologists an unprecedented new way to perturb cellular activities. The application of optogenetic approaches in cellular biology and synthetic biology research has evolved tremendously in the last few years