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Nobel medicine prize awarded to Deisseroth, Hegemann and Nagel

Original: Nobel Prize in medicine jointly awarded to ​Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann ​and Georg Nagel

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have jointly been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The trio's work on optogenetics, a technique using light to control brain cells, is credited with transforming the study of the brain and earning recognition from the Nobel Assembly in Stockholm.

Why now: The announcement of the annual Nobel Prize in medicine is one of the most anticipated awards in science.

Karl DeisserothPeter HegemannGeorg NagelNobel Assembly

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