MicroRNAs control the activity of many key genes but were unknown before 1993.

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun have been honoured with the Nobel Prize for Medicine. The Nobel Prize committee decided in favour of their "groundbreaking discovery" of "microRNA".

US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun have won the medicine Nobel Prize for discovering tiny molecules that have played a crucial role in human evolution, offering clues to how deadly diseases can be tackled.

If gene regulation goes awry, it can lead to serious diseases such as cancer, diabetes, or autoimmunity.

U.S. scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of microRNA and its crucial role in how multicellular organisms grow and live, the award-giving body said on Monday.

Two American scientists were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on Monday for their groundbreaking work on how genes behave.

American scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their “groundbreaking” discovery of microRNA, tiny molecules that are important for gene expression.