This is a lovely piece about the 2024 Nobel Prize to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, written by Bruce Wightman, the first author of one of the prize-winning papers. It emphasizes the importance of fundamental research and the beauty of heterochronic genes.
#Celegans #devbio 🧪🧬
doi.org/10.1242/dmm....
It's about time: the heterochronic background for the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Summary: The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded for the discovery of miRNAs; the groundwork was laid by investigating the timing of developmental events in nematodes.
