A new era in neuroscience Optogenetics has fundamentally altered our understanding of the brain. (Courtesy: © The Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine. Ill. Mattias Karlén)"> A new era in neuroscience Optogenetics has fundamentally altered our understanding of the brain. (Courtesy: © The Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine. Ill. Mattias Karlén)

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth , Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for “their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics”.

Optogenetics is a method that uses light to characterize and manipulate the activity of neurons in a living brain.…