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Nobel Prize in medicine honors two Americans for discovery of microRNA

  

Category:  Health, Science & Technology

Via:  hallux  •  one month ago  •  4 comments

By:   The Associated Press - NPR

Nobel Prize in medicine honors two Americans for discovery of microRNA

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STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, a fundamental principle governing how gene activity is regulated.

The Nobel Assembly said that their discovery is "proving to be fundamentally important for how organisms develop and function."

Ambrose performed the research that led to his prize at Harvard University. He is currently a professor of natural science at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Rackham's research was performed at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Medical School, where he's a professor of genetics, said Thomas Perlmann, Secretary-General of the Nobel Committee.

Last year, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Hungarian-American Katalin Karikó and American Drew Weissman for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 that were critical in slowing the pandemic.

The prize carries a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million) from a bequest left by the prize's creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.

The announcement launched this year's Nobel prizes award season.

Nobel announcements continue with the physics prize on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced Friday and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on Oct. 14.

The laureates are invited to receive their awards at ceremonies on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death.


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Hallux
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1  seeder  Hallux    one month ago

Americans keep winning Nobels in the STEM fields as the SRO crowd ramps up its trashing of the institutions that taught them.

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
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1.1  Trout Giggles  replied to  Hallux @1    one month ago

Without those institutions and scientists, their poor old mamas would die from their breast cancer. Now, more and more people are surviving cancers that not too long ago were a death sentence

 
 
 
Hallux
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1.1.1  seeder  Hallux  replied to  Trout Giggles @1.1    one month ago

All cures can be found in Two Ludicrous right next to an image of Trump as a pillar of salt.

 
 
 
Tessylo
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1.2  Tessylo  replied to  Hallux @1    one month ago

Such hateful agnorance from those deniers.

 
 

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