Scientists Behind Light-Controlled Brain Technology Win 2026 Nobel Medicine Prize

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COLOMBO (News 1st); The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for their pioneering discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics, a breakthrough that has transformed neuroscience and provided researchers with an unprecedented tool to study the living brain. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska…