American Karl Deisseroth and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine for developing optogenetics. The technique uses light to control individual nerve cells in the brain. The Nobel Assembly of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute announced the award on Monday. It recognised the trio’s discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics. Deisseroth, 54, Hegemann, 71,…
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Nobel Prize Highlights Advances in Cancer Immunotherapy
American scientists Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell, alongside their Japanese colleague Shimon Sakaguchi, have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The prestigious award recognises their pivotal discoveries concerning regulatory T cells. These discoveries have fundamentally changed our understanding of the immune system. Additionally, they have paved the way for novel treatments for cancer and autoimmune disorders.…