Healthcare Economist October 11, 2024
This year, the Nobel Prize in medicine went to Victor Ambros, currently a Professor of Natural Science at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Gary Ruvkun, a Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. The two men won the award for their discovery of microRNA. One of the key questions of science is figuring how how can we have such differentiated cells–brain cells, muscle, bone, nerve–when all cells have the same DNA. The key is gene regulation where each cell only selects the DNA instructions which are relevant to its particular function. A key question is how this gene regulation takes place.
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun were interested in how different cell types develop. They discovered microRNA,...
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