An unexpected discovery about what made a tiny worm refuse to grow up has now led to the 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
Victor Ambros, now at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in Worcester, and Gary Ruvkun, of Harvard Medical School, found that small snippets of RNA called microRNAs can help control production of proteins throughout the body. These minuscule RNAs may play an outsize role in health and disease.
“The seminal discovery of microRNA has introduced a new and unexpected mechanism of gene regulation,” Olle Kämpe, Vice Chair of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm said October
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