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US-German trio win Nobel medicine prize for work on optogenetics

First reported 2026-10-05 09:37 UTC · Updated 2026-10-05 10:32 UTC · 3 independent sources

The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to U.S. psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and his German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for their work in the field of optogenetics.

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  1. 2026-10-05 09:37 UTCDW · dw.com ↗
  2. 2026-10-05 09:45 UTCSCMP via Reuters · scmp.com ↗
  3. 2026-10-05 09:58 UTCThe Local Sweden · thelocal.se ↗
  4. 2026-10-05 10:32 UTCPhys.org same text as The Local · phys.org ↗

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