# LIVE: Stanford holds press conference after Nobel prize announcement

https://mins.news/en/video/86642

- Reuters, 2026-10-05 14:54 UTC
- Science
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_0zkcc9wSA

> Stanford University is holding a press conference after researcher Karl Deisseroth shared the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel. They were recognized for developing optogenetics, which uses light to control individual nerve cells in the brain.

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