The 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine went to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel for discovering light-gated ion channels and developing optogenetics, a technique now used worldwide to study how the brain switches nerve cells on and off.
Nobel Medicine Prize Goes to Three Scientists for Optogenetics
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