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Award the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of gene-regulating microRNAs
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNAs that regulate genes.
Award the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of gene-regulating microRNAs
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to two geneticists who discovered microRNAs - a class of tiny RNA molecules that help control gene translation in multicellular organisms.
Victor Ambros, of the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, and Gary Ruvkun of Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, share the 11 million Swedish crown ($1.1 million) prize, awarded by the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
The discovery "has opened a new field in gene regulation," said Nobel Prize Committee member Olle Kämpe, an endocrinologist at the Karolinska Institute, during a press conference to announce the prize.
“Although there are no clear applications for microRNAs yet, understanding their existence and their regulatory networks is the first step,” explained committee chair Gunilla Karlsson Hedestaman, an immunologist at the Karolinska Institutet.