For them <a href="https://time.news/who-won-the-2024-nobel-prize-in-medicine-victor-ambros-and-gary-ruvkun/" title="Who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine? Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun“>Victor Ambrose and Gary Ruvkun This year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.
According to the notice of the committee which awarded the Nobelthe award is given for its discovery microRNA and its role in gene regulation
In its announcement, the committee speaks of a “groundbreaking discovery” that “revealed an entirely new dimension in gene regulation”.
Both scientists found one regulatory mechanism used in cells to control gene activity.
Genetic information flows from the DNA to messenger RNA (mRNA), through a process called transcription, and then to the cellular machinery for protein production. mRNAs are then translated so that proteins are made according to the genetic instructions stored in DNA. Since the mid-20th century, some of the most fundamental scientific discoveries have explained how these processes work.