U.S. scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday for the discovery of microRNA and its crucial role in how multicellular organisms grow and live. Their work helped explain how cells specialise and develop into different types,

The Nobel Prize in medicine has been awarded to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, a fundamental principle governing how gene activity is regulated.

If scientists can better understand how they work and how to manipulate them, it could one day lead to powerful treatments for diseases like cancer.

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".

The prize was awarded Monday for the discovery of microRNA, which play an important role in gene regulation and how organisms develop and function.

Scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of microRNA and its role in gene regulation, the award-giving body said on Monday. The winners for medicine are selected by the Nobel Assembly of Sweden's Karolinska Institute medical university and receive a prize sum of 11 million Swedish crowns ($1.

Clinical trials are underway to explore microRNA as a skin cancer treatment, following Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvku's findings.