Nobel prize in medicine awarded to scientists for work on microRNA

The Nobel committee secretary general, Thomas Perlmann, speaks to the media in front of a picture of this year's laureates, Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkum at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm Photograph: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images

The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine 2024 has been awarded to two scientists for their work on tiny RNA molecules that help cells control which proteins they produce.

Victor Ambros of the University of Massachusetts medical school, and Gary Ruvkun of Harvard medical school and Massachusetts general hospital, have been awarded the prize for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.