Nobel Prize awarded for groundbreaking research on brain cells study

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to scientists who developed a new technique to study brain cells.

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American Karl Deisseroth and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel developed optogenetics, which uses light to control individual nerve cells in the brain.The Nobel Assembly of Sweden's Karolinska Institutet said Mr Deisseroth, 54; Mr Hegemann, 71; and Mr Nagel, 73, had been selected for their "discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics."Thomas Perlmann, Secretary-General of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, said: "This method makes it possible to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells in a living brain." TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Anna Wedell, a professor of genetics and a member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, said a new era in neuroscience had opened, but it was only the beginning.She said: "For the first time, we can actually start to understand how the brain processes information...

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