The 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology has been awarded to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun “for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation”. MicroRNAs are small molecules which – as was explained at the announcement of this year’s winning scientists – have opened a new field in gene regulation. The Nobel Prize winner announced Medicine 2024 was the general secretary of the Nobel Assembly, Thomas Perlman.
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