American biologists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun rewarded for their work on microRNAs

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine was assignedfrom Stockholm (Sweden) Monday October 7, to American researchers Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, for their work on microRNAs and their role in gene expression at the post-transcriptional level. Both have “revealed a completely new principle of gene regulation that has been shown to be essential for multicellular organisms, including humans”writes the Academy on X. Victor Ambros was born in 1953 in the state of New Hampshire, Gary Ruvkun in 1952 in California.

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