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The 2026 Nobel Prize in medicine goes to US researcher Karl Deisseroth and the Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for optogenetics, FAZ reports. Le Monde says their method shows how nerve cells shape memories, emotions and behaviour.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded each October by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. It honours discoveries with major benefit to humankind and opens the annual Nobel announcements.
The 2026 Nobel Prize in medicine goes to US researcher Karl Deisseroth and the Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for their work in optogenetics, FAZ reports. Le Monde says the trio discovered a method that shows how nerve cells shape memories, emotions and behaviour in the brain.