optogenetics.
neuromodulation method; uses a combination of techniques from optics and genetics to control and monitor the activities of individual neurons in living tissue
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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About optogenetics
Optogenetics is a biological technique used to characterize and manipulate the activity of neurons or other cell types with light. This is achieved by expression of light-sensitive ion channels, pumps or enzymes in the target brain cells. A specialization of this field is nano-optogenetics.
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