The Nobel Prize: genomics can be rewarded – Swedish Radio

Maybe it’s nightly conversations, unprejudiced curiosity and a real mental magplask leading up to today’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Two researchers wondered how it was that a single worm could not lay any eggs. The mask did not want to become mature got some of his genes controlled by tiny RNA strands. RNA unusually would not bond with the genome to create proteins.

Instead ruled these RNA strands which proteins are created in the mask. The very thought that the American scientists discovery was revolutionary. But nobody cared.

Five years later, a British scientist manipulating plants, and see how the tomato and tobacco plants protected against the invading virus. And then he saw that the plants used the same principle as the mask, the tiny RNA to regulate the situation.

And these micro-RNAs, has since seen, can affect heart disease, cancers, muscle, blood cell specialization and embryonic development. So this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology, I think about how genes are regulated, and more specifically, with the help of micro-RNA, and that the award winners are Victor Ambrose, Gary Ruvkun and David Baulcombe.

Annika Östman
anniak.ostman@sr.se