Optogenetics is a method for controlling the activity of targeted neurons with light. As an approach to neuroscience, optogenetics started to become viable in the early 2000s. In the novel, optogenetics both provides an avenue for Gifty to find scientific answers to her questions about pain and loss, and it demonstrates her superior intellectual capacity, since her research is cutting-edge and difficult.
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