<![CDATA[The new field of optogenetics won the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine.]]>The new field of optogenetics won the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine. Very cool technique to switch genes on and off with light. I recall I began writing about it sometime around 2004 and had a bunch of conversations with one of its inventors, Karl Deisseroth - now a Nobel winner.

I miss my career sometimes but I don't really miss the 5 am October wake-ups to do Nobel Prize stories.

https://www.nobelprize.org/

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The Post used to care a little bit about science. Now they're too busy normalizing the latest MAGA law-breaking to bother with it much.

]]>https://postcall.pub/post/https://mas.to/users/brianvastag/statuses/117389905890986968https://postcall.pub/post/https://mas.to/users/brianvastag/statuses/117389905890986968Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:16:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The new field of optogenetics won the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine. on Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:14:28 GMT]]>When I was at WaPo, the general Nobel Prize guidelines were to give US winners a big treatment & maybe a full profile.

Today I don't even see it on the homepage.

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