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  <description>News from the Lugano practice: recent studies on the treatments we offer, read in full and explained by Dr Zeljko Djordjevic, FMH specialist in Lugano.</description>
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    <title>The 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine: what optogenetics is and what it has to do with laser therapy</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>On 5 October 2026 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for optogenetics: a method that uses a protein taken from an alga to activate nerve cells with light. It has changed the study of the brain. It uses light like laser therapy, but works in a different way: only after a gene has been introduced into the cells.</description>
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    <title>Exosomes: are they all the same? What a 2026 review found</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>No. A review published on 23 September 2026 in the journal Cells brought together 70 studies comparing exosomes produced by different cells. The cells of origin change the content and the effects, but no source turned out to be the best overall, and almost all the evidence still comes from the laboratory and from animal studies.</description>
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