The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 has been awarded to US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their work on microRNA. Their work helped explain how our genes work inside the human body. The winners share a prize fund worth get 11m Swedish kronor (£810,000).
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