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American Scientists Get Medicine Nobel for Finding MicroRNA
- Victor Ambros, Gary Ruvkun share 11 million-krona prize
- Discovery sheds light on how cells are able to specialize
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Two American scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their discovery of a fundamental principle governing how gene activity is regulated.
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun will share the 11 million-krona ($1.1 million) award, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm said in a statement Monday.