The committee in Stockholm awarded this year's prize for medicine jointly to a pair of US researchers. Victor Ambros and and Gary Ruvkun will share nearly a million euros for the discovery of microRNA. That's a class of tiny molecules that play a crucial role in regulating how genes work.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded 114 times to 227 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2023.

For more, we talk to Anna Carthaus from DW Science.

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