1936 Nobel Prize Award ceremony, 10 December 1936. From left: Medicine laureates Otto Loewi and Sir Henry Dale, chemistry laureate Peter Debye, physics laureates Carl David Anderson and Victor F. Hess. Sir Henry Dale and Professor Otto Loewi outside the Grand Hotel in Stockholm at the time of the Nobel Week, December 1936

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Victor Ambros receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 2024. Victor Ambros after receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 2024. From left: Mary Kwak, partner to laureate Simon Johnson, Victor Ambros and…

Gary Ruvkun receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 2024. Gary Ruvkun after receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 2024. From left: Princess Sofia of Sweden, Gary Ruvkun and Princess Madeleine of…

First reactions. Telephone interview, October 2024 ”A celebration of the way of doing science”  Victor Ambros speaks about the joy of basic research and the ever-expanding fascination of RNA. Recorded just after he found out about the prize, we also discover how the news was broken to the new laureate by his son, who began…

Interview, December 2024 Interview with the 2024 Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine Gary Ruvkun on 6 December 2024 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Gary Ruvkun answers the following questions (the links below lead to a clip on YouTube): – Where does your passion for science come from? – What fascinates you about…

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…