Former Dartmouth Professor Wins Nobel Prize

Victor Ambros was a geneticist at Geisel School of Medicine and helped discover microRNA. If every cell in our bodies contains the same genetic information, why are the cells in our guts different from the cells in our muscles, which are different from the cells in our brains?

The answer has to do with how genes in each cell are regulated so that the cell develops according to the relevant genetic instructions for its function. And key to this regulation, it turns out, is microRNA—a new class of RNA molecules discovered by former Dartmouth professor and Geisel School of Medicine geneticist Victor Ambros...

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