# Nobel medicine prize goes to 3 scientists for research into brain activity

https://mins.news/en/video/86609

- The Associated Press, 2026-10-05 14:30 UTC
- Science
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8boowDbAwc

> The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for research using light to investigate how the brain works. Their work focused on light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.

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