{"id":"b387e188-6233-4ee4-a5e6-ad7812d0385f","url":"https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3369804/nobel-medicine-prize-awarded-3-scientists-optogenetics-development","domain":"scmp.com","outlet":{"name":"South China Morning Post","country":"HK","cred":4,"lean":0,"curated":true,"owner":"Alibaba Group"},"title":"Nobel Medicine Prize awarded to US-German trio for work on optogenetics","plainHeadline":"Nobel Prize awarded to Deisseroth, Hegemann, and Nagel for optogenetics","rewrite":{"model":null,"at":null},"summary":["Three scientists win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine for optogenetics research.","Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel work at Stanford, Humboldt, and Würzburg.","Prize recognizes work on light-gated ion channels controlling nerve cell activity.","Optogenetics helps reveal neural circuits related to memories, emotions, and disorders.","Prize amount is 12 million Swedish kronor per laureate, awarded December 10."],"topics":["Science","Health","Education"],"lang":"eng","publishedAt":"2026-10-05T09:45:18.000Z","ingestedAt":"2026-10-05T10:16:44.951Z","story":"https://brief.concise.news/story/e5fbe9e6-5608-4f89-9687-8e479b05d63f","storyId":"e5fbe9e6-5608-4f89-9687-8e479b05d63f","image":"https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/1280x720/public/d8/images/canvas/2026/10/05/9b83e713-1d34-4535-9597-522719a92869_7a0d30ba.jpg?itok=qHLFiSKh&v=1791193517","author":"Agencies","dek":"The 2026 Nobel Prize season opened on Monday with the Medicine Prize being awarded to three scientists working on the mechanisms the brain uses to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells."}