Victor Ambrose and Gary Ruvkun jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology of 2024
His groundbreaking discovery revealed an entirely new principle of gene regulation that proved essential for multicellular organisms, including humans. It is now known that the human genome codes for more than a thousand microRNAs. Their surprising discovery revealed an entirely new dimension to gene regulation. MicroRNAs are proving to be fundamentally important to the way organisms develop and function.
Victor Ambrose and Gary Ruvkun have been jointly awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. The Nobel Academy at the Karolinska Institute announced this on Monday (October 7, 2024). According to an official statement, this award was given to scientists for the discovery of a fundamental principle that regulates gene activity. Victor Ambrose and Gary Ruvkun were interested in how different cell types develop. He discovered microRNAs, a new class of small RNA molecules that play important roles in gene regulation. His groundbreaking discovery revealed an entirely new principle of gene regulation that proved essential for multicellular organisms, including humans. It is now known that the human genome codes for more than a thousand microRNAs. Their surprising discovery revealed an entirely new dimension to gene regulation. MicroRNAs are proving to be fundamentally important to the way organisms develop and function.
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