US, German scientists win Nobel medicine prize for work on light and brain

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: © France 24 01:46 Issued on: 06/10/2026 - 14:05 American Karl Deisseroth and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ​on Monday for developing optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control individual nerve cells in the brain. Student protests: First images from demonstrations in Paris 06/10/2026 France Yemen's Houthis claim attack on Riyadh airport 06/10/2026 Priceless book designed by Dali stolen in France 06/10/2026 Trump's deportation push sees LGBT migrants sent to hostile countries 06/10/2026 As students protest, how dilapidated really are France's school buildings? 06/10/2026 Japan holds first ‘competitive sleeping’ contest 06/10/2026 At least 6 dead as Russia strikes Ukraine’s Kharkiv 06/10/2026 Cornell students stage anti-rape rally in support of 'Jane Doe' 06/10/2026 Paris students gear up for 'Black Tuesday' protests 06/10/2026 France