Show Notes
The winners of the 2026 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, Emmanuel Mignot, MD, PhD, and Masashi Yanagisawa, MD, PhD, discuss how they identified the neuropeptide orexin and deduced its role in narcolepsy.
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