Trio Wins Nobel Medicine Prize for Optogenetics
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
FaithTap · Oct 5, 2026 · 1 min read
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The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for discoveries involving light-gated ion channels and the development of optogenetics. The technique uses light to switch the activity of individual nerve cells on or off in a living brain, allowing researchers to investigate brain function. The Nobel committee said the method is now used in laboratories around the world.
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