A groundbreaking genetic point-of-care test designed to prevent avoidable hearing loss in newborn babies is being rolled out across Scotland, and IBMS Fellow Ryan Cooper has played a key role in making it a reality.
For their discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation, Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun have been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. How did they do it?