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Marta Iraola Iribarren

German and US scientists win 2026 Nobel Prize in medicine for method to 'reveal the brain's mysteries'

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 is awarded for optogenetics — a method that makes it possible to show how nerve cells shape memories, feelings and behaviours in the living brain, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet announced on Monday.

German scientists Georg Nagel, Peter Hegemann and US scientist Karl Deisseroth won the Prize, laying foundation "of a new era in neuroscience", the institute said in a statement.

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