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The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.
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Slightly insightful, sharp, and awesome.
The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize): BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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@eladgil: As bio PhD, it's amazing how sleepy & slow biology now feels Last peak moment was maybe CRISPR in 2012? Seems like that…
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@pdhsu: Beautiful work - the Weissman lab at MIT strikes again!
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