Controlling the brain with light earns a physiology Nobel
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Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing optogenetics, a field that uses light to control nerve cells based on studies of light-seeking algae. The technique allows researchers to activate and shut down neurons in an intact brain, overcoming the limitations of traditional genetic deletion methods.
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