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Oct 7, 2024

Medicine Nobel awarded for gene-regulating ‘microRNAs’

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The 2024 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, who discovered microRNAs, a class of tiny RNA molecules that help to control how genes are expressed in multicellular organisms.

MicroRNAs perform a multitude of tasks in complex organisms, from…


Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun identified a class of tiny molecules that have a crucial role in controlling gene expression.

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