Nobel Prize in Medicine: Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel honoured for optogenetics
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UruguayMontevideo retains from this Nobel the therapeutic promise: a light technique that illuminates the brain's circuits and could, one day, treat Parkinson's, epilepsy, or blindness.
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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 narrative focuses on future treatments, in the conditional, more than basic research.
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AustraliaLaboratory tool
the narrative highlights the precision of the experimental method rather than its therapeutic applications.
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Uruguay onlyAustraliathis perspective does not carry this information