2026 Nobel Prize for Medicine goes to photonics tech
The research has been could allow scientists to switch neural activity on and off with light (Image: Mattias Karlén / The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet)
A study on optogenetics has been awarded the prize for using light to control individual nerve cells in living brains
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