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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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Transmission electron microscope image of a Chlamydomonas green alga cell, the kind of single-celled alga whose light-sensitive protein led to optogenetics
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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A model of the human brain