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US, German scientists win Nobel medicine prize for work on light and brain

US, German scientists win Nobel medicine prize for work on light and brain

American Karl Deisseroth and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ​on Monday for developing optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control individual nerve cells in the brain.

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