A view of a bust of Alfred Nobel in the Nobel Forum, where the Nobel Prize in Medicine will be announced, in Stockholm, Sweden, October 7, 2024. REUTERS/Tom Little
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -U.S. scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday for the discovery of microRNA and its crucial role in how multicellular organisms grow and live.
Their work helped explain how cells specialise and develop into different types, such as muscle and nerve cells, even though all the cells in an individual contain the same set of genes and instructions for growing and staying alive.
