"Optogenetics has given us the opportunity to map the brain in a way that we could only dream of before," says Per Svenningsson, chairman of the Nobel committee for physiology or medicine, in a statement. #Lääketiede #Nobel #Optogenetiikka (translated)
Three developers of optogenetics, Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine this year for controlling cells with light, which allows for a more precise study of nerve cells. #Lääketiede #Nobel #Optogenetiikka (translated)