King 5 News visited Dr. Sam Golden’s lab in the Department of Biological Structure to interview him about his research into opioid addiction. Researchers at the Golden Lab are using machine learning to analyze videos of fentanyl-addicted mice. A grant from the National Institutes of Health is funding their research, which could lead to a better understanding of addiction in humans. A paper describing the machine learning process developed by Golden’s group, called Simple Behavioral Analysis, appeared in Nature Neuroscience in May. [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01649-9].

Congrats to the Golden Lab. We’re excited to see where this research leads!