From Our Special Desk : Eastern Chronicle 24×7, The 7th October, 2024.
- (1) Victor Ambros, and (2) Gray Ruvkun, US duo, won Medicine Nobel.
- Prize, awarded for Discovery of microRNA.
- Medicine prize, the frist of this Year’s Nobel Award, 2024.
US scientists duo, Victor Ambros & Gray Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine, for the discovery of microRNA, and it’s crucial role is how multicellular organisms grow and live.
Their discovery helped how cells specialise and it’s develop in different types, as for example, muscle and nerve cells, even the all cells in an individual contains the same set of genes and instructions for growing and staying alive.
“Their groundbreaking discovery revealed a complete new principle of gene regulation that turned out essential for multicellular organisms, including human”- the Nobel Assembly added.
Ambros describes, microRNA as a “communication network amongst genes that enables cells in our bodies to generate all kinds of different complex structures and functions”.
Their discovery helps on how certain microRNA govern growth of organs and tissue was initially dismissed as specific of speices.
More work published by their researches showed that All Animal Life had related on the mechanism for mor than 500 million years.
