ScienceUS and German scientists win Nobel medicine prize for work on light and the 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, which uses light to control individual nerve cells in the brain.

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