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THE REFRACT 2026RSSEVERY STORY HAS MANY SIDES

Nobel Prize in Medicine: Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel honoured for optogenetics

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NOBEL PRIZE IN MEDICINE: KARL DEISSEROTH, PETER HEGEMANN AND GEORG NAGEL HONOURED FOR OPTOGENETICS

Nobel Prize in Medicine: Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel honoured for optogenetics

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October 6, 2026

20

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56

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64

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54/100

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More divergent than 37% of recent comparable stories (reference: 90 recent stories measured with the same method).

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Serbia2 omissions

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4 of 20

Hegemann and Nagel's work on algae and channelrhodopsin
scientific explanation of optogenetics

United Kingdom1 omission

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2 of 20

use of the method on animal models of brain diseases

South Korea1 omission

Covered by

4 of 20

origin of the method in the study of unicellular algae

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