An Opus 5.5 animation tells the optogenetics Nobel story

Rashad Mirza, MD @RashadMirza404Originally posted 2026.10.06

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Congratulations to @KarlDeisseroth , Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel on the Nobel Prize! They turned a light sensor from green algae into a switch for brain cells. My gift to them: an animation of the whole story, from a single swimming cell to a man seeing again, made with Claude Opus 5.5. It's unbelievable what AI can create now. See the comments for the prompt I used.