Author: Victor Ambros, Professor of Molecular Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School

The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine goes to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, tiny biological molecules that tell the cells in your body what kind of cell to be by turning on and off certain genes. The Conversation Weekly podcast caught up with Victor Ambros from his lab at the UMass Chan Medical School to learn more about the Nobel-winning research and what comes next. Below are edited excerpts from the podcast. How did you start thinking about this fundamental question at the heart of the discovery of microRNA, about how cells get…