Nobel Prize in Medicine: Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel honoured for optogenetics
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AustraliaCanberra takes note of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, the laboratory tool: a light switch for neurons, born from a green alga, presented as a new era for neuroscience.
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BelgiumBrussels retains from the Nobel the therapeutic hope: the "light switch" of neurons sheds light on depression, addiction, and retinal diseases, with an expert from KU Leuven as a guarantee.
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Laboratory tool
the narrative highlights the precision of the experimental method rather than its therapeutic applications.
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the scope of the method is established by quoting the committee itself.
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BelgiumTherapeutic framework
La Libre mentions degenerative retinal diseases in its title, while the cited Nobel jury talks about neuroscience.
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La Libre first presents optical coherence tomography before mentioning optogenetics.