Victor Ambros received half of the Nobel Prize for his work on microRNAs. Here he talks about the teamwork – and the nematodes – that made the discovery possible.
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Listen to one of the 2024 Nobel laureates in physiology or medicine, Victor Ambros, talk about microRNA on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their discovery of microRNAs, molecules that turn genes on and off – and cause disease when they go awry.
US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun changed our understanding of how the body works and opened up a new area of science.
When just one of the thousands of microRNAs in people go awry, it can cause diseases ranging from heart disease to cancer.
Some animals use microRNA to protect the brain from various stressors. Understanding how they do this and applying it to humans has potential for revolutionary treatments.
Jumbo squids live in extreme environments. Tiny genetic modifications allow them to move back and forth from the surface of the ocean to its bottom, killing and eating everything in their path.
Tiny parts of our genome once thought useless are being turned into ways to diagnose and treat disease.
microRNA used to be dismissed as “junk DNA”, but it plays an important role regulating the other genes in our genome.
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