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What is microRNA? Understanding the 2024 Nobel Prize-winning breakthrough

IndiaTimes Wednesday, 9 October 2024
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun are awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering microRNA, a genetic switch that can regulate gene functions. This discovery offers potential treatments for cancer, heart disease, and viruses, although no treatments have yet reached patients.
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News video: US duo wins Nobel Prize in Medicine for gene regulation breakthrough

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US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun win the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery of microRNA and its role in how genes are regulated, the Nobel Assembly at Sweden's Karolinska Institute says.

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