Two scientists have been awarded the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine 2024 for the discovery of microRNA (miRNA), and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation, the Nobel Assembly announced.
Professor Gary Ruvkun, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Professor Victor Ambros professor of natural science at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester will share the prize, for their work which demonstrated how miRNA allow different cells in different tissues to express different genes.
