Medicine Nobel awarded for brain ‘switch’ that controls neurons with light: live updates
Read at Nature · 5 October 2026 at 14:35
Medicine Nobel awarded for brain ‘switch’ that controls neurons with light: live updates
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Last updated: 5 October 2026 at 14:35 · 8 articles · 5 sources
Daily briefing: Can you name every female Nobel laureate?
Read at Nature · 5 October 2026 at 14:35
Can you name the women who have won a science Nobel prize?
Read at Nature · 5 October 2026 at 14:35
Nobel medicine prize honours US and German scientists for optogenetics work
The winners of the Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics will be announced in the week.
Read at Al Jazeera · 5 October 2026 at 14:18
Nobel Prize awarded for revealing inner workings of the brain
US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and his German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have been awarded for their work.
Read at BBC · 5 October 2026 at 11:04
Nobel medicine prize goes to 3 scientists for research into brain activity
The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists working on the mechanisms the brain uses to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells.
Read at NPR · 5 October 2026 at 10:11
2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded for brain research tool called optogenetics
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel are the joint recipients of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics,
Read at STAT News · 5 October 2026 at 10:00
Opinion: Will Claude ever win a Nobel Prize for medicine?
“Are we entering a world in which some (or all) Nobels will be awarded to Claude, ChatGPT, or their AI successors, rather than human scientists?” asks Jeffrey Flier.
Read at STAT News · 5 October 2026 at 08:30