2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Georg Nagel and Peter Hegemann for work on optogenetics
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- BBC Health·3h agoNobel Prize awarded for showing how nerve cells shape feelings
US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and his German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have been awarded for their work.
Read at BBC Health → - Irish Times World·3h agoTrio awarded Nobel Prize in medicine for research on mysteries of brain
Optogenetics makes it possible to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells in a living brain
Read at Irish Times World → - NPR News Now·3h agoNobel medicine prize goes to 3 scientists for research into brain activity
The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists working on the mechanisms the brain uses to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells.
Read at NPR News Now → - DW News EN·3h agoGerman and US scientists win Nobel Prize in medicine
The trio won the award for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.
Read at DW News EN → - Scientific American·4h ago2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Georg Nagel and Peter Hegemann for work on optogenetics
Karl Deisseroth, Georg Nagel and Peter Hegemann developed optogenetics, which uses light and genetics to control individual cells
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