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Explainer: Why 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awards optogenetics

NAMPA / Xinhua
2026-10-05
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics. The Nobel Assembly at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet awarded the prize for optogenetics and described it as a method that makes it possible to show how nerve cells shape memories, feelings and behaviours in the living brain. WHO......
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