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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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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by electrical metaphor
the narrative puts the image of the brain as a network of switches in the foreground.
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the text describes the tool in guinea pigs, without developing therapeutic applications.
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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.