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  • The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Carl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel for pioneering research enabling precise control of individual nerve cells in living brains.
  • A co-pilot on a passenger jet bound for Tel Aviv allegedly attempted to crash t

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