Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their work on the discovery of microRNA, a molecule that governs how cells in the body function.

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for the discovery of microRNA, which plays a crucial role in determining how organisms develop and function — and how they sometimes malfunction.

This year’s prestigious Nobel Prize in Medicine went to US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for “their discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.” Having identified a new class of RNA molecules that controls how a gene behaves,