Stockholm, Oct 7, 2024 (AFP) - Winning the Nobel 'an earthquake', says Ruvkun

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2024-10-07

US scientist Gary Ruvkun, who on Monday won the Nobel Prize in Medicine with fellow American Victor Ambros for their discovery of microRNA, said winning the honour was like "an earthquake". "It's a big deal. It's a big one. It's an earthquake," the 72-year-old professor at Harvard Medical School told Swedish public radio SR just after the announcement was made in Stockholm. He was woken by a call from the Nobel prize committee in the early hours......

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