The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to the duo Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional genetic regulation.
Thomas Perlmann, secretary of the Nobel Assembly, announced the award this Monday in Stockholm.
The set of information stored within chromosomes may be linked to the development manual of all cells in the body. The duo's discovery, however, indicates how different tissues develop from a set of identical information.
Gene regulation allows each individual cell to follow specific developmental instructions, ensuring that only one group of genes is activated. The tool that regulates this development is, precisely, microRNA, the structures discovered by Ambros and Ruvkun.
The Nobel Prizes were created by the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896. The prize has a monetary value of 11 million Swedish kronor, that is, around 976,000 euros.
From 1901 to 2023, 114 Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine were awarded. Thirteen of the 227 winners were women.
(By MozaVibe)
