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Medicine Nobel rewards controlling neurons with light
Covers the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded to Deisseroth, Hegemann and Nagel for optogenetics. Traces the science from a light-sensing algal protein to neurons controlled by light, and sets out where the method stands clinically today.
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For readers who saw headlines about the Nobel Prize announcement and want to understand what optogenetics actually does, how it reached this point from basic algae research, and why it matters for neuroscience despite not yet being a widespread treatment.
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