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  "id": 12386864,
  "title": "US, German scientists win Nobel medicine prize for work on light and brain",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/us-german-scientists-win-nobel-medicine-prize-for-work-on-light-and",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-06T12:05:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "France 24",
    "slug": "france-24",
    "url": "https://www.france24.com/en/video/20261006-us-german-scientists-win-nobel-medicine-prize-for-work-on-light-and-brain"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "American Karl Deisseroth and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for developing optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control individual nerve cells in the brain.",
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      {
        "outlet": "VnExpress International",
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/physicist-hunting-ghost-particles-under-south-pole-ice-since-the",
        "published": "2026-10-06T10:51:59.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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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."
}