Nobel Prize for Medicine Goes to US Duo Who Discovered MicroRNA

Nobel Prize for Medicine Goes to US Duo Who Discovered MicroRNA
Thomas Perlmann, secretary of the Nobel Assembly and the Nobel Committee, speaks as Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun are awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, in Stockholm, Sweden, on Oct. 7, 2024. Christine Olsson/TT News Agency/via Reuters
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STOCKHOLM—U.S. scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday for the discovery of microRNA and its crucial role in how multicellular organisms grow and live.

Their work helped explain how cells specialise and develop into different types, such as muscle and nerve cells, even though all the cells in an individual contain the same set of genes and instructions for growing and staying alive.