2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded for optogenetics

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recognizes discoveries enabling optogenetics to control nerve cells with light.

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2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded for optogenetics — Photo: Christopher Michel / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Trio Wins Nobel Medicine Prize for Optogenetics

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for discoveries behind optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control activity in individual nerve cells and study the brain.

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