Medical Nobel Prize for the discovery of gene-regulating micro-RRAS

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Der Medizin-Nobelpreis geht 2023 an Victor Ambros und Gary Ruvkun für ihre Entdeckung der mikroRNAs, die Gene regulieren.
The Nobel Prize for Medicine will go to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of the micrornas in 2023. (Symbolbild/natur.wiki)

The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded to two geneticists who have discovered micro-RNAS-a class of tiny RNA molecules that help to control the gene translation in mult cell.

Victor Ambros, who works at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, and Gary Ruvkun from the Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, share the price of 11 million Swedish crowns (1.1 million US dollars), which from the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm was.

The discovery "opened a new field in gene regulation," said the Nobel Prize Committee member Olle Kärpe, an endocrinologist at the Karolinska Institute, during a press conference to announce the price.

"Although there are no clear applications for micro-RNAS, understanding your existence and regulatory networks is the first step," said the chairman of the committee, Gunilla Karlsson Hedestaman, an immunologist at the Karolinska Institute.