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Nobel prize in medicine awarded to scientists for work on microRNA

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Original article by Nicola Davis
The Guardian – Page: Online : 8-Oct-24

The Nobel assembly has announced that the 2024 Nobel prize in medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros of the University of Massachusetts medical school, and Gary Ruvkun of the Harvard medical school and Massachusetts general hospital. Ambros and Ruvkun won the award for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation, with Olle Kampe, vice-chair of the Nobel committee for physiology or medicine, commenting that "microRNAs are important for our understanding of embryological development, normal cell physiology, and diseases such as cancer".

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Research on how cells adapt to oxygen earns trio Nobel Prize for medicine

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The New Daily – Page: Online : 8-Oct-19

Scientists William Kaelin, Gregg Semenza and Peter Ratcliffe have been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work in determining how cells adapt to oxygen levels. In awarding the prize to Kaelin, Semenza and Ratcliffe, the Nobel Assembly at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute noted that oxygen sensing is central to a large number of diseases. Their work is tipped to help find new methods for combating diseases such as cancer and anaemia.

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