T wo scientists have been award the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of microRNA. Victor Ambros, professor of molecular medicine at the University of Massachusetts ...

The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA, molecules that help control how genes are expressed. Their findings unlocked new areas of ...

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for the discovery of microRNA, a tiny class of RNA molecules that play a crucial role in determining ...

STOCKHOLM - Two researchers working in Massachusetts have been awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine. The Nobel Assembly said that their discovery is "proving to be fundamentally important for how ...

“MicroRNA alters how genes in the cell work,” said Fletcher, who is an outside expert not associated with the Nobel prize. “If we take the example of cancer, we’ll have a particular gene ...

To ensure the modified microRNA-34a makes it to cancer cells, the team attached the double strand to a molecule of the vitamin folate. The surfaces of all cells in our body have receptors that bind to ...

Indeed, a single microRNA can regulate anywhere from 10 to 100 protein-coding RNAs. Rather than translating DNA to proteins, they instead can bind to protein-coding RNAs to silence genes.

Anil Oza is STAT’s 2024-2025 Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellow. You can reach Anil on Signal at aniloza.16. Gary Ruvkun is used to getting awards — but for him, the Nobel Prize is in a ...

In addition to slowing or reversing tumor growth, the targeted microRNA-34a strongly suppressed the activity of at least three genes -- MET, CD44 and AXL -- known to drive cancer and resistance to ...