Nobel prize in medicine awarded to scientists for work on microRNA

Prize given to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun have been awarded the prize for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.

Announced by the Nobel assembly at Karolinska Institutet, in Stockholm, Sweden, the winners will share a prize of 11m Swedish kronor (about £810,000).

This year’s award is the 115th Nobel prize to be presented in physiology or medicine since 1901. Of the 229 winners, only 13 have been women.

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