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The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of
Answer: B
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation, first found in the roundworm C. elegans.
Expression Sequence Tags are short sequenced pieces of expressed genes, a DNA microarray is a gene-expression testing tool, and SNPs are single-base variations in DNA. None of these was the subject of the award.
MicroRNAs were first found in 1993 by Ambros and Ruvkun in the lin-4 gene of C. elegans, and they act by binding messenger RNA and switching off the production of particular proteins.
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