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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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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Therapeutic framework
the narrative focuses on future treatments, in the conditional, more than basic research.
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Canadaby genesis
the narrative puts the algal origin of the discovery in the foreground before its applications.
Relying on the Nobel Committee
the interpretation quotes come from members of the Nobel Assembly.
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Reliance on the Nobel Committee
the article sticks to the institution's announcement, with no other sources cited.
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