Nobel medicine prize goes to 3 scientists for research into brain activity
Three scientists—Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel, have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for developing optogenetics, a technique that allows researchers to study brain activity. The achievement recognizes their work in creating this research method.
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