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BREAKING: Scientists Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 'discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics' reut.rs/46ZKnkg

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Optogenetics 'makes it possible to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells in a living brain,' the award-giving body said. 'This method is now being used in laboratories around the world to reveal the brain’s mysteries'

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Karl Deisseroth, a 54-year-old American, Hegemann, a 71-year-old German, and Georg Nagel, a 73-year-old German, were selected by the Nobel Assembly of Sweden's Karolinska Institute medical university and receive a prize sum amounting to $1.2 million reut.rs/4yvSaCb

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I struggle to celebrate breakthroughs that rely on animal experiments. Humans are not more intrinsically valuable than other animals in my view. I dont agree that human health matters more than the right of animals to live their lives unmolested. I realise I'm a minority here.