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Mª del Carmen de Andrés González

Stabilised Miguel Servet Researcher at the Galician Health Service, Institute of Biomedical Research of A Coruña (INIBIC)

I can safely say that today all scientists working in the field of epigenetics are tremendously happy to learn that the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology 2024 has been awarded to those fascinating small non-coding RNA molecules: microRNAs.
Few molecules have been implicated in as many vital physiological processes as microRNAs, which through repression of their target genes are involved in immunological, carcinogenic, developmental or inflammatory processes, and are expressed in a wide variety of organisms.
It is a well-deserved award to the researchers who discovered the first microRNA, demonstrating once again that basic science is the first step to clinical translation.

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