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Trio wins Nobel Prize for breakthrough in optogenetics
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Three scientists, Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel, have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their pioneering work on optogenetics, a technique that enables researchers to control nerve cell activity in living organisms.