Calling all teachers – teaching material on this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is ready for use.
The 2026 medicine laureates developed optogenetics, a method enabling us to show how nerve cells form memories, emotions and behaviours in a living brain. This method is used by laboratories all over the world and has fundamentally changed the way we see the brain
With the Nobel Prize lesson it’s easy to teach your class about this year’s medicine prize. Find a slideshow with a speaker’s manuscript and a student assignment at