Nobel Prize for the discovery of microRNA and its role in gene regulation
摘要
The Nobel Prize 2024 in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded for the discovery of miRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. Firstly, the results were thought to be irrelevant to humans, but nowadays, at least 30% of the known miRNAs could be used as novel biomarkers for screening human diseases and therapeutic purposes targeting manipulation of cell functions under examinations.