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WorldPingThe Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists working on the mechanisms the brain uses to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells.
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WorldPingKarl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel are the joint recipients of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics," the…
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Nobel Prize in Medicine jointly awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel — full report at France 24.
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WorldPingThe 2026 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has gone to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for the development of techniques for controlling brain cells with light…
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WorldPing“Are we entering a world in which some (or all) Nobels will be awarded to Claude, ChatGPT, or their AI successors, rather than human scientists?” asks Jeffrey Flier.
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WorldPingUS psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and his German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have been awarded for their work.
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