US and German scientists win Nobel medicine prize for work on light and brain
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American Karl Deisseroth and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing optogenetics, a groundbreaking technique that uses light to control brain cells.
