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Scientists Win Nobel Prize For Turning Brain Cells On And Off. It Began With Pond Scum.

The trio will share roughly $1.2 million for discoveries that led to optogenetics..

Hank Berrien
Scientists Win Nobel Prize For Turning Brain Cells On And Off. It Began With Pond Scum.
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A trio of scientists whose discoveries allowed researchers to control the activity of brain cells with light won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday.

It all started with pond scum, or green algae.

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