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Oct 5, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine: Optogenetics Enables Precise Neural Control with Light

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine honors Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel for developing optogenetics, a technique that uses light-sensitive proteins to control specific neurons with millisecond precision, enabling causal neuroscience research and promising advances in brain-computer interfaces.