The 2024 Nobel Prize for 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. This year’s Nobel Prize honours two scientists for their discovery of a fundamental principle governing how gene activity is regulated.
Announcing the decision to honour Ambros and Ruvkun, the Nobel Assembly said that their discovery is “proving to be fundamentally important for how organisms develop and function.”
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The 2024 #NobelPrize 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. pic.twitter.com/rg3iuN6pgY— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 7, 2024
Their groundbreaking discovery revealed a completely new principle of gene
regulation that turned out to be essential for multicellular organisms,
including humans. It is now known that the human genome codes for over
one thousand microRNAs.
The winners for medicine, chosen by the Nobel Assembly of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute medical university, receive a sum of 11 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million).
