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He won the Nobel Prize for his work understanding the brain — and his kids are super proud

Stanford University neuroscientist Karl Deisseroth shares the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in optogenetics, a technique that allows researchers to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells in a living brain to probe how it works.

He won the Nobel Prize for his work understanding the brain — and his kids are super proud

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