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  "id": 12132952,
  "title": "Medicine Nobel awarded for brain ‘switch’ that controls neurons with light: live updates",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/medicine-nobel-awarded-for-brain-switch-that-controls-neurons-with",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-05T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Nature",
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    "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03091-2"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Nature, Published online: 05 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03091-2 Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on optogenetics, which has revolutionized neuroscience.",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Japan Times",
        "title": "Scientists win Nobel Prize in medicine for work on ‘light-gated ion channels and optogenetics’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/scientists-win-nobel-prize-in-medicine-for-work-on-light-gated-ion",
        "published": "2026-10-05T09:34:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Gulf News",
        "title": "Scientists who revealed how brain shapes memories win Nobel",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/scientists-who-revealed-how-brain-shapes-memories-win-nobel",
        "published": "2026-10-05T09:51:36.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "ABC News AU",
        "title": "Nobel medicine prize awarded to scientists for brain activity research",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/nobel-medicine-prize-awarded-to-scientists-for-brain-activity-research",
        "published": "2026-10-05T10:34:39.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "RTE News",
        "title": "German, US scientists win Nobel prize for optogenetics",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/german-us-scientists-win-nobel-prize-for-optogenetics",
        "published": "2026-10-05T11:00:12.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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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."
}