Nobel Prize in Medicine: Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel honoured for optogenetics
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ItalyRome sees this Nobel as the consecration of a tool: optogenetics, the "switch" that allows for the activation and deactivation of specific neurons with light.
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ArgentinaBuenos Aires sees this Nobel as a medical promise for the brain: the Argentine press explains optogenetics, a neuron switch, and its potential avenues against Parkinson's, epilepsy, and depression.
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by electrical metaphor
the narrative puts the image of the brain as a network of switches in the foreground.
on the animal model
the text describes the tool in guinea pigs, without developing therapeutic applications.
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ArgentinaEducational
the narrative highlights the story of the algae and the protein before the institutional issues.
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Argentina onlyArgentinaReliance on a single source
the interview with the winner is based on a news agency dispatch.