{"id":706,"date":"2026-10-08T18:22:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T18:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/?p=706"},"modified":"2026-10-08T18:22:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T18:22:31","slug":"nobel-prize-in-medicine-awarded-for-optogenetics-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/?p=706","title":{"rendered":"NOBEL PRIZE IN MEDICINE AWARDED FOR OPTOGENETICS BREAKTHROUGH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three scientists have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries involving light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.<br><br>Karl Deisseroth from the United States and Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel from Germany were announced yesterday by the Nobel Assembly. Their work developed a technique that uses light to control nerve cells, transforming understanding of the brain and offering new ways to treat neurological disorders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\" style=\"min-height:308px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-712\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791482935730-1.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791482935730-1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791482935730-1-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three scientists have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries involving light-gated ion channels and optogenetics. Karl Deisseroth from the United States and Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel from Germany were announced yesterday by the Nobel Assembly. Their work developed a technique that uses light to control nerve cells, transforming understanding of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}