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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CanadaOttawa recalls from the Nobel Prize in Medicine the journey of a tool: from a pond algae observed by a biophysicist to a method that allows questioning the living brain.
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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 puts the algal origin of the discovery in the foreground before its applications.
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the interpretation quotes come from members of the Nobel Assembly.