Optically Controlled Oscillators in an Engineered Bioelectric Tissue

Harold M. McNamara, Hongkang Zhang, Christopher A. Werley, and Adam E. Cohen Department of Physics, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA (Received 12 April 2016; revised manuscript received 3 June 2016; published 1 July 2016)

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