SciLifeLab

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🇸🇪 Sweden's national center for molecular biosciences
👩‍🔬 Infrastructure with unique technologies and expertise
👥 Research community
🥼 Life science 🌱
💻 Often data-driven

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“#Optogenetics has revolutionized how we study the brain. The technique lets researchers switch specific brain cells on or off with flashes of light, with unprecedented specificity and precise timing” says @iskrapollak.bsky.social, SciLifeLab Fellow and @stockholm-uni.bsky.social researcher.

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“As an electrophysiologist, I’m especially excited to see a @nobelprize.org that puts ion channels in the spotlight. The discovery of channelrhodopsin transformed a naturally occurring light-gated ion channel into a tool that revolutionized neuroscience,” says Nina Ottosson.

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The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel, “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics”.

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Today, we were honored to welcome Nobel laureate Stefan Hell 🧪 “I hear Stefan speak about his research once a year, and I’m always amazed how much has happened,” says SciLifeLab Director Jan Ellenberg. Hell received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Stefan Hell smiling, standing in front of a crowd and giving a talk. Blurry people in the foreground.
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“I'm grateful, freaking out, humbled, very excited about what we’re going to do, happy to skip writing for the next deadline, and eager to celebrate with my wonderful team!” says Florian Rosenberger (SciLifeLab/@ki.se) after receiving an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant 🧪

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