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The 2024 Nobel prize in Medicine: impact on hemostasis and thrombosis research
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Published: 19 November 2024
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On October 7th, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation...
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