Nobel Prize in Medicine: Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel honoured for optogenetics
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United KingdomLondon takes from the Nobel in optogenetics a promise of brain mapping, from memory to psychiatric disorders, with the restoration of sight as the first cited clinical application.
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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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the only medical application mentioned is vision restoration, with no mention of animal models of brain diseases.
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the narrative highlights the precision of the experimental method rather than its therapeutic applications.
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