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Nobel Prize in Medicine 2026: Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann & Georg Nagel Win for Optogenetics
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries involving light-gated ion channels and optogenetics, a technology that lets researchers control selected nerve cells with light.