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

https://mins.news/en/video/87925

- France 24 English, 2026-10-06 12:05 UTC
- Science
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-up8yauZ2U

> The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went on Monday to American Karl Deisseroth and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel. They developed optogenetics, a way to alter the behavior of individual nerve cells in the brain with light.

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