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SCIENCE & TECH
Nobel medicine prize goes to light switch for nerve cells
Hegemann and Nagel found the protein behind optogenetics in a single-celled alga that swims towards light, in the early 2000s.
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HEALTH
Human brain is ‘two separate organs’, Stanford study finds
The forebrain and hindbrain grow from separate embryonic cells that evolved independently, according to Stanford Medicine researchers, whose study was published in…
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