STOCCOLMA (SVEZIA) (ITALPRESS) – The Nobel Prize for Medicine 2026 was awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries related to ionic channels activated by light and hopogenetic.”.
“ Understanding how the brain pierces memories, emotions and behaviors has long been a dream for researchers. Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 2026 for the discoveries that led to the hopogenetics, a technique that allows to activate or deactivate the activity of individual nerve cells in a living brain. This method is now used in laboratories around the world to reveal the mysteries of the brain,” explains the Nobel Foundation in a note.
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