American Karl Deisseroth and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering optogenetics, a method that uses light to control nerve cells. The technique has transformed brain research and may improve cochlear implants. The three will share 12 million Swedish crowns ($1.2m).
US, German scientists win Nobel medicine prize for optogenetics
Source: Al Jazeera