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Karl Deisseroth, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: ‘ Advanced AI models could infer the activity of the brain’The inventor of optogenetics for controlling the brain with light explains how the technique brings closer better treatments for mental illness
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The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel for their work on light-gated ion channels and optogenetics
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