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Nobel Prize 2026 Awarded for Light Switch in Brain Cells
Laureates Peter Hegemann, Georg Nagel, and Karl Deisseroth have been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their groundbreaking research on discovering a light switch to control the brain – a technique called optogenetics. At the start of the 21st century, Hegemann curiously observed single-celled algae, Chlamydomonas, swimming towards a light source…
