🧠💡 When Light Can Control the Brain, Science Enters a New…

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🧠💡 When Light Can Control the Brain, Science Enters a New Era.
Congratulations to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann & Georg Nagel , winners of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 🏆
Their groundbreaking discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics have transformed how scientists study neural activity. 🔬✨
Science reminds us:
The biggest breakthroughs often begin with one curious question.
👏 Congratulations to the Nobel Laureates!


https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2026/summary/


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@floratis

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This is truly fascinating! The idea that light can actually be used to control and study brain activity is incredible. Congratulations to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel on such a remarkable achievement! 🏆It’s amazing what curiosity and years of research can lead to.

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👋 Hello! I'm a subscriber. Here is a gift emoji 🪄 and a little tip for making an interesting post!

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@ayaan4ever

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That science-reminds-us line is doing too much, actually. Optogenetics itself was alredy lab talk, Nobel is just late.

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That cutoff is doing a lot of work. The biggest breakthroughs often begin with one, and then the sentence just stops. With optogenetics I keep landing on the algae: a protein that opens when light hits it, borrowed into neurons so a flash can turn a circuit on or off. Deisseroth, Hegemann, and Nagel getting the 2026 Nobel for that feels earned. What was the one supposed to be?

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Thanks for sharing this on Tangled,

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