ScienceControlling the brain with light earns a physiology Nobel

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing optogenetics. The field grew from studies of light-attracted single-celled algae and uses light to alter the behavior of nerve cells identified by individual gene activity, enabling researchers to activate or shut down neurons in an otherwise intact brain.

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