TWiN 76: Light Switches Go To Stockholm

This Week in Neuroscience · Oct 29, 2026 · 1h 19m

TWiN explains the science behind the 2026 Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Tim Cheung

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Nobel Prize Physiology or Medicine 2026 (Nobel)

Driving fast-spiking cells (Nature)

Manipulating synthetic optogenetic odors (Science)

Microbial rhodopsin in mammalian neurons (Nat Methods)

Deisseroth lectures on optogenetics (iBiology)

Cardiogenic control of affective behavioral state (Nature)

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