Announcement of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine by Professor Thomas Perlmann, Secretary-General of the Nobel Assembly, on 7 October 2024. Interview about the awarded work “It’s a completely new physiological mechanism” Immediately after the announcement, Professor Olle Kämpe, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, was interviewed by freelance journalist…

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Scientific background For the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation The evolution of multicellular organisms from unicellular ancestors, where each cell-type acquired specialized functions, required increasingly sophisticated mechanisms of gene regulation. Besides transcriptional gene regulation mediated by DNA-binding factors acting on regulatory sequences, other forms of control systems emerged as organisms…

Swedish 2024-10-07 har idag beslutat att Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin år 2024 skall tilldelas Victor Ambros och Gary Ruvkun för upptäckten av mikroRNA och dess roll i posttranskriptionell genreglering Årets Nobelpris belönar två forskare för upptäckten av en grundläggande princip för hur geners aktivitet regleras. Arvsmassan i våra kromosomer kan liknas vid en instruktionsbok…

English 2024-10-07 has today decided to award the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation This year’s Nobel Prize honors two scientists for their discovery of a fundamental principle governing how gene activity is regulated. The…

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A magnificent musical celebration of science Swedish soprano Malin Byström and Czech conductor Petr Popelka performed together with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at the 2024 Nobel Prize Concert at Konserthuset Stockholm on 8 December. They performed a programme including the final scene from the opera Salome by Richard Strauss and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances.…