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German and US scientists win Nobel medicine prize for work on optogenetics
The first prize was announced on Monday, October 5, with the remaining categories scheduled throughout the week: American Karl Deisseroth and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for their discoveries on light and optogenetics that have helped understand how the brain works.
Last year, American scientists Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell and Japan's Shimon Sakaguchi won the prize for work shedding light on how the immune system spares healthy cells, creating openings for possible new treatments of diseases such as cancer.
The 2026 Nobel Prize announcements are currently taking place from October 5 to 12, 2026.
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