Medical Research

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries behind optogenetics, a method that allows scientists to control the activity of selected nerve cells using light. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet announced the award on Monday, 5 October. It recognised the three researchers for their

A cancer medicine already used to treat some blood cancers has reduced the reservoir of intact virus in macaques, offering a potentially important lead in the search for an HIV cure. The drug, venetoclax, was tested alongside antiretroviral therapy in rhesus macaques infected with simian immunodeficiency virus, or SIV. SIV is closely related to HIV