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Medicine Nobel goes to US-German trio for pioneering light-based control of cells

First reported 2026-10-05 10:32 UTC · Updated 2026-10-05 14:13 UTC · 2 independent sources

American psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and German scientists Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries that allow researchers to control nerve cells using light.

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  1. 2026-10-05 10:32 UTCPhys.org · phys.org ↗
  2. 2026-10-05 14:13 UTCCNA · channelnewsasia.com ↗

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