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Montevideo, November 9th 2024 - 01:21 UTC

Tag: Medicine Nobel Prize

  • Monday, October 7th 2024 - 12:05 UTC

    2024 Medicine Nobel Prize goes to team of US researchers

    ”Ambros and Ruvkun's seminal discovery in the tiny worm C. elegans was unexpected and revealed a new dimension of gene regulation

    US researchers Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun were awarded the 2024 Medicine Nobel Prize for their findings in post-transcriptional gene regulation (microRNA) which have proven “to be of fundamental importance in how organisms develop and function,” it was announced Monday in Stockholm while launching the start of Nobel Prize Week. They were granted some € 970,000 for their contribution to science.

  • Tuesday, October 3rd 2023 - 08:47 UTC

    Developers of mRNA technology win Medicine Nobel Prize

    Kariko and Weissmann worked together at the University of Pennsylvania

    Scientists Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissmann have been awarded the 2023 Medicine Nobel Prize for their development of the mRNA technology for the production of Covid-19 vaccines, it was announced Monday.