The 2026 medicine Nobel goes to optogenetics | Science News
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The 2026 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine went to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for developing ways to control nerve cells with light. The technique, called optogenetics, opened new ways to study the brain by turning individual neurons on and off. #nobel #optogenetics #sciencenews 🎙️Nikk Ogasa 📸 Getty Images/Alexander Pytskiy/JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/JOHN SAEKI,LAURENCE CHU/VALENTINA BRESCHI,JONATHAN WALTER,SYLVIE HUSSON,OLIVIER THIBAULT Read more science news at www.sciencenews.org Sign up for our newsletter — a weekly roundup of the latest scientific breakthroughs, delivered every Thursday. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for evidence-based science reporting and explainers.
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