Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded for optogenetics, a light switch for the brain
World Socialist Web Site · 1 hour ago
Peter Hegemann, Georg Nagel and Karl Deisseroth turned a light-sensitive protein from algae into a tool for switching brain cells on and off, giving the study of emotion, memory and behavior a causal, material basis. The prize comes as the Trump administration guts the research and health care…
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