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A screen shows the laureates of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, US physicist John J Hopfield (L) and Canadian-British computer scientist and cognitive psychologist Geoffrey E Hinton, during the announcement at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden on October 8, 2024. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP) (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)
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Nobel Committee Secretary General Thomas Perlmann speaks to the media in front of a picture of this year's laureates Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkum during the announcement of the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on October 7, 2024. Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkum won the Nobel medicine prize on October 7, 2024 for the discovery of microRNA and its role in how gene activity is regulated, the Nobel jury said. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP) (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)
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Nobel Prize in medicine goes to two American biologists for work on the discovery of microRNA
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