Nobel Prize in Medicine: Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel honoured for optogenetics
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FinlandHelsinki hails optogenetics as a revolution in neuroscience tools, explained from green algae to laboratories, in the words of a Finnish researcher.
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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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the narrative highlights the importance of the discovery for medicine.
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YLE bases its explanation on a researcher from the University of Helsinki.
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BelgiumTherapeutic framework
La Libre mentions degenerative retinal diseases in its title, while the cited Nobel jury talks about neuroscience.
Confused attack
La Libre first presents optical coherence tomography before mentioning optogenetics.