On Monday, October 7, the Nobel Committee announced the winners of the annual prize in physiology or medicine. Scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun got the prize for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation, according to the Nobel Foundation. About the winners This year’s Nobel Prize was awarded to two scientists for discovering microRNA molecules that regulate gene function. The information stored in our chromosomes can be compared to an instruction manual for all cells in our body. Each cell contains the same chromosomes and therefore contains the ex…