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Trio Wins Nobel Medicine Prize for Optogenetics
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The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for discoveries behind optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control activity in individual nerve cells and study the brain.
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Rachel Meyers
Optogenetics could finally help us understand and treat brain disorders at the cellular level.