A fact from Zhuo-Hua Pan appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 January 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Zhuo-Hua Pan, credited by some as the inventor of optogenetics, had his paper describing the technique rejected by multiple journals?
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...states "who was the first to demonstrate the technique of optogenetics,". Is this correct? In my understanding, optogenetics is defined by genetic manipulation to render cells light sensitive. The earliest genetically targeted experiments were reported by Zemelman and Miesenböck. Zhuo-Hua Pan had an important role in the global effort to get optogenetics off the ground, but I think this statement should be rephrased. Any opinions? --Foreade (talk) 12:40, 25 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
