{"id":1448418,"date":"2026-10-05T13:52:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T10:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-2026-nobel-prize-in-medicine-laureates-have-been-announced\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T13:52:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T10:52:21","slug":"the-2026-nobel-prize-in-medicine-laureates-have-been-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-2026-nobel-prize-in-medicine-laureates-have-been-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine laureates have been announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel. The scientists were honored for their discovery of light-gated ion channels and the development of optogenetics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/medicine\/2026\/press-release\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was reported<\/a> on the official website of the Nobel Prize.<\/p>\n<p> Optogenetics is a method that allows you to control the activity of individual nerve cells using light.<\/p>\n<p> Thanks to this technology, scientists can more precisely study the functioning of the brain and determine how nerve cells affect memory, emotions, and behavior.<\/p>\n<p> Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel studied light-sensitive proteins in unicellular algae and discovered channelrhodopsins, proteins that respond to light and pass ions across the cell membrane.<\/p>\n<p> Karl Deisseroth used these discoveries to develop a method that allows the activity of neurons to be turned on and off using light.<\/p>\n<p> The Nobel Committee noted that these studies opened up new possibilities for neuroscience and made it possible to study the functions of nerve cells with high precision.<\/p>\n<p> The technology is already widely used in brain research, and its potential for future treatments for neurological and mental illnesses is being studied.<\/p>\n<p> The winners will share <strong>12 million Swedish kronor<\/strong> in prize money.<\/p>\n<p> The announcement of the laureates in medicine opened Nobel Week 2026.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel. The scientists were honored for their discovery of light-gated ion channels and the development of optogenetics. This was reported on the official website of the Nobel Prize. Optogenetics is a method that allows you to control the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":478760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1448418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1448418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1448418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1448418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}