Nobel medicine prize goes to three scientists for research into brain activity

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Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for research that enabled optogenetics. Their work on light-gated ion channels created a tool for investigating brain activity.

The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists who created a tool using light to help unravel how the brain works. Karl Deisseroth, 54, Peter Hegemann, 71, and Georg Nagel, 73, have carried out research into light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.