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Boston native Karl Deisseroth among Nobel medicine prize winners

Original: Boston native Karl Deisseroth among winners of Nobel Prize in medicine

Karl Deisseroth, a Boston native and Stanford psychiatrist known for pioneering optogenetics, is among the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Local Boston media highlighted his roots as news of the award spread, with attention focusing on his role in developing tools that allow researchers to control brain cells with light and what the recognition means for neuroscience.

Why now: The Nobel Prize in medicine was just announced, with the hometown angle on Deisseroth drawing attention

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Boston native Karl Deisseroth among winners of Nobel Prize in medicine · WHDH

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