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Nobel peace prize awarded to Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors organization

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization representing survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The Norwegian Nobel Committee made the announcement on Friday morning. The committee praised Nihon Hidankyo “for their efforts towards a world free of nuclear weapons and for bearing witness […]

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Nobel prize in medicine awarded to Ambros and Ruvkun for discovery of microRNA

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been jointly awarded to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their groundbreaking discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm made the announcement on Monday morning, with Secretary General Thomas Perlmann revealing the laureates’ […]

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