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Medicine Nobel awarded for brain ‘switch’ that controls neurons with light


Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on optogenetics, which has revolutionized neuroscience.

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