Optogenetics

Medicine Nobel Prize 2026: Cellular Light Switch That Rewired Neuroscience

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was today awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for optogenetics: the discovery of light-gated...

Generative Optogenetics: When Light Becomes Code and Cells Become Computers

DARPA has quietly launched what may be one of the most audacious bioengineering programs of the decade—and possibly of the century, called the Generative Optogenetics...