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Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun Awarded 2024 Nobel Prize for Groundbreaking MicroRNA Discovery

Karolinska Institutet — The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet has awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their groundbreaking discovery of microRNA and its pivotal role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. This significant achievement underscores a fundamental principle in understanding how gene activity is regulated in multicellular organisms, including humans. Ambros…