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  "id": 12130638,
  "title": "US-German trio win Nobel medicine prize for work on optogenetics",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/us-german-trio-win-nobel-medicine-prize-for-work-on-optogenetics",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-05T09:58:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Local Sweden",
    "slug": "the-local-sweden",
    "url": "https://www.thelocal.se/20261005/us-german-trio-win-nobel-medicine-prize-for-work-on-optogenetics"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Nobel medicine prize was awarded to US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and his German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for their work in the field of optogenetics.",
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 4,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "France 24",
        "title": "🔴 Nobel Prize in Medicine jointly awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/nobel-prize-in-medicine-jointly-awarded-to-karl-deisseroth-peter",
        "published": "2026-10-05T09:47:22.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Indian Express",
        "title": "Nobel prize in medicine honours research into mysteries of brain",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/nobel-prize-in-medicine-honours-research-into-mysteries-of-brain",
        "published": "2026-10-05T10:01:05.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Dawn",
        "title": "German, US scientists win Nobel prize for work that has helped understand how the brain works",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/german-us-scientists-win-nobel-prize-for-work-that-has-helped",
        "published": "2026-10-05T11:16:31.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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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."
}