Optogenetics is a significant advancement in controlling genes with light, worthy of a Nobel Prize.

Huge congratulations to this year's winners of the #NobelPrize in #Physiology or #Medicine! 🎉 Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann & Georg Nagel are being honoured for developing #optogenetics - techniques for controlling genes with light.

Two of the 2026 #Medicine #NobelPrize winners, Peter Hegemann & Georg Nagel, made their prize‑winning discoveries during their time as Research Group Leaders at Max Planck Institutes - the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (Hegemann) & Biophysics (Nagel): our warmest congratulations from us! 🎉(and yes, we admit , so we’re feeling just a tiny bit 'noble' today, too!😉) https://www.mpg.de/27014852/congratulations-to-peter-hegemann-and-georg-nagel-on-their-nobel-prize-in-physiology-or-medicine