Two Americans are this year's recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, including a professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun were announced as the winners yesterday for the discovery of microRNA.
Ambros is a professor of natural science at the Medical School, while Gary Ruvkun, is a professor of genetics at Harvard.
They were honored for their work published back in 1993 on MicroRNA, which is a class of molecules that help determine how organisms function and their discovery opens up possibilities for fighting diseases.
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