Who won the Nobel Prize 2024, in the Medicine field for research on microRNAs?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 went to the American scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun “for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation”.
MicroRNAs are tiny RNA molecules that do not code for proteins; they switch genes down by blocking their messenger RNA, and so help decide which proteins each kind of cell makes. Both scientists first found them in the small worm C. elegans.