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  "id": 12128309,
  "title": "2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded for brain research tool called optogenetics",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/2026-nobel-prize-in-medicine-awarded-for-brain-research-tool-called",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-05T10:00:11.000Z",
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    "name": "STAT News",
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    "url": "https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/05/nobel-prize-medicine-2026-winner-deisseroth-hegemann-nagel/"
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  "summary": "Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel are the joint recipients of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics,\" the…",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Economic Times",
        "title": "Nobel Prize announcements started on Monday",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/nobel-prize-announcements-started-on-monday",
        "published": "2026-10-05T07:17:45.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}