US, German scientists win Nobel medicine prize for work on light and brain • FRANCE 24 English

American Karl Deisseroth and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ​on Monday for developing optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control individual nerve cells in the brain.
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