James Lin

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James Lin Home Writing Photography Home Writing Photography Observations from MIT's best neuroscience lab February 13th, 2025 Table of Contents How the Boyden Lab gets things done What to know about research Observations on academic culture I spent the past 2 months in the Boyden Lab at MIT. The lab is run by Ed and has a history of inventing scientific tools, including but not limited to: optogenetics , temporal interference , expansion microscopy , and temporal multiplexed imaging . Any of these tools on their own could make an argument for a Nobel — to have discovered and developed several

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