Two Americans Win Nobel Prize in Medicine for microRNA Discovery — VOA Learning English
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Two Americans have won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of genetic material called microRNA.
Victor Ambros is a professor at the University of Massachusetts and Gary Ruvkun is a Harvard University professor.
The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute, a group of 50 professors, decided to award the two for identifying genetic molecules that help control how genes work.
The Nobel Assembly said the discovery is “proving to be fundamentally important for how organisms develop and function.”
In explaining the importance of the work, the group said it “revealed a completely new principle of gene regulation that turned out to be essential for multicellular…
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