Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Who are Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun?

The 2024 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. This groundbreaking work has revealed a new principle of gene regulation essential for multicellular organisms, including humans, with the human genome coding for over a thousand microRNAs.