Nobel Prize in Medicine: Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel honoured for optogenetics
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South KoreaSeoul retains from this Nobel the therapeutic promise of optogenetics, from vision restored to the blind to hope against autism and depression, and recounts it above all through its laureates.
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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.
- South Korea
Biographical
the second article in the Korea Times puts the winner's domestic anecdote at the forefront of the story.
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AustraliaLaboratory 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.
- South Korea
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the Korea Herald reprints a first-person text written by the Associated Press agency, without its own South Korean source.
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South Korea onlyAustraliathis perspective does not carry this information