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Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to trio for technique that helps decode mysteries of the brain

By Issy Ronald, Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The 2026 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to three scientists – Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel – for their work developing a technique to decode the inner workings of the brain. This method – known as optogenetics – ac...

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