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A pair of U.S. scientists concerned within the examine of gene exercise have been awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or drugs on Monday for his or her discovery of microRNA and its function in post-transcriptional gene regulation.
Victor Ambros, a professor on the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Gary Ruvkun, a professor of genetics at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, found microRNA, a brand new class of tiny RNA molecules that play a vital function in gene regulation.
“Their groundbreaking discovery revealed a totally new precept of gene regulation that turned out to be important for multicellular organisms, together with people,” the Nobel Foundation mentioned in saying the award.
