October 7, 2024 4:25 PM

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun win 2024 Nobel medicine prize

U.S. scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of microRNA and its crucial role in how multicellular organisms grow and live, the award-giving body said on Monday. The Nobel assembly said in a statement that the laureates discovered the new class of tiny RNA molecules, which play a crucial role in gene regulation. "Their groundbreaking discovery revealed a completely new principle of gene regulation that turned out to be essential for multi...