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microRNA Discovery: The Journey to the 2024 Nobel Prize

The groundbreaking discovery of microRNA in the early 1990s by researchers Gary Ruvkun and Victor Ambros serves as a monumental milestone in the field of gene regulation, ultimately earning them the prestigious Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 2024.This fascinating discovery, initially published in the journal Cell, unveiled a new dimension of genetic control that would later be recognized as fundamental to how various organisms, including humans, develop and function.