The discovery of microRNA wins the 2024 physiology Nobel Prize
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun found a new principle of gene regulation essential for all multicellular organisms.
MicroRNA plays a key role in gene regulation
Victor Ambros (left) and Gary Ruvkun (right) won the 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for the discovery of microRNA and its role in gene regulation.
Niklas Elmehed, © Nobel Prize Outreach
The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun “for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.”
The prize recognizes the “discovery of a fundamental principle governing how gene activity is regulated,” the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden said October 7 in a press release.
Ambros, of the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in Worcester, and Ruvkun, of Harvard Medical School, will split the prize of Eleven million Swedish kroner, or about $1 million.
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