Nobel Prize in medicine goes to the light switch for brain cells
A protein from green algae let scientists switch brain cells on with light. Two of the three winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine work in Germany.
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Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The prize rewards optogenetics, a method that switches nerve cells on and off with light. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm announced it on Monday, according to its press release.
Deisseroth works at Stanford University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the US. Hegemann is a professor at Humboldt University of Berlin, and Nagel at the University of Würzburg. The…
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