Stanford Medicine

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06 October 2026 17:34

Collaborators and colleagues of Karl Deisseroth came out to raise a glass of champagne to the Nobel Prize laureate Monday on the Stanford University campus. stan.md/4hIFQHQ @bioe-stanford.bsky.social @stanford.edu

Stanford Medicine

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06 October 2026 17:34

Nobel laureate Karl Deisseroth helped pioneer optogenetics, now used in thousands of labs worldwide to study how nerve-cell activity shapes behavior. But the road he took to get there, and to the prize, was a rocky uphill climb. stan.md/4rXK5Uv @bioe-stanford.bsky.social @stanford.edu

The Conversation U.S.

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06 October 2026 01:01

A steady stream of technological advances led up to this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine for ‘optogenetics’ – and it opens the door to more advances that could lead to treatments for Parkinson’s, epilepsy, or blindness.

Dave Levitan

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29 August 2026 02:51

There are like 20 Tim Curry line deliveries in Clue that are among the best line deliveries in movie history. It’s a perfect performance.

Kevin M. Gill

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29 August 2026 02:03

Right now, the Curiosity Rover is parked up next to a large sand ripple having just used the front right wheel to push in some sand to reveal layers below the grainy crust. Looks like Curiosity will spend Sol 5000 checking out that wheel scuff. flic.kr/p/2sxScRB