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The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their groundbreaking discovery of microRNA, which plays a critical role in regulating gene activity. Their research, conducted at prestigious institutions like Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital, has provided fundamental insights into how organisms develop…

The recent award of the 2023 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman highlights the growing importance of RNA technology in the medical world, with many potential applications beyond COVID vaccines.

André O. Hudson, a biochemist and microbiologist at the Rochester Institute of Technology, explain how basic research like that of this year’s Nobel Prize winners provides the foundations for science

This year’s laureates have opened doors for disease control, technological advancements and subversive literature.

University once reportedly discouraged Katalin Karikó from pursuing mRNA research that later helped create Covid vaccines

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine announcement of the winners comes as no surprise and ticks all the boxes

The mRNA vaccine story during the COVID-19 pandemic placed an extraordinary premium on altruism on the part of scientists

Three atomic physicists, France's Pierre Agostini, Hungarian-Austrian Ferenc Krausz and French-Swedish Anne L'Huillier, on Tuesday won the Nobel Physics Prize for research into tools for exploring electrons inside atoms and molecules.

The 2023 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine will go to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discovery that modifying mRNA – a form of genetic material your body uses to produce proteins – could reduce unwanted inflammatory responses and allow it to be delivered into cells. While the…