Nobel medicine prize for optogenetics work

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The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and German scientists Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for discoveries that laid the foundation for optogenetics, a technique that allows researchers to control nerve-cell activity with light. The Nobel Assembly honoured the trio for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics, a