Lingang Laboratory: Cooperation to establish a million-channel optogenetic brain-machine interface brings important breakthroughs to brain science research.

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04/02/2026
Today's official WeChat post from the Lingang Laboratory announced that on February 3rd, the team led by Li Hao from Lingang Laboratory collaborated with the research group led by Liu Zhen from the Brain Intelligence Innovation Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and published a research paper titled "A mesoscale optogenetics system for precise and robust stimulation of the primate cortex" online in the top academic journal in the field of neuroscience, "Neuron". The research team successfully established a novel, ultra-high channel count brain-machine interface based on mesoscale optogenetics technology, overcoming the technical challenges of long-term, precise, and stable stimulation of the primate cortex, bringing about an important breakthrough in the field of brain-machine interfaces and neuroscience research.