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Light-Switching Brain Proteins Win 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Original: Light-Switching Brain Proteins Earn 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded for the discovery of light-switching brain proteins, the technology behind optogenetics, which lets scientists control neurons with light. The work transformed neuroscience by enabling precise manipulation of brain circuits in living animals, with implications for studying and potentially treating conditions such as Parkinson's disease, epilepsy and blindness.
Why now: The annual announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine always draws worldwide attention, especially when it honors a technology as influential as optogenetics.
Nobel PrizeoptogeneticsneuroscienceKarolinska Institute
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