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@[email protected] @[email protected] Per this article
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/microrna-2023-nobel-physiology-medicine
it was discovered in 1993 and named some years later; there are now more than 1,000 microRNAs identified (so we should adjust our caption to say that the research is having profound effects on our understanding!).
According to some digging, Nobel prizes in the sciences are given to recognize discoveries that have withstood the test of time (this happened because the 1926 award was given to someone who “proved” that a parasite causes cancer).
In this interview from 2001, Ralf Pettersson, former chairman of the Nobel Prize Committee for Physiology/Medicine, said: “The criterion ‘the previous year’ is interpreted by the Nobel Assembly as the year when the full impact of the discovery has become evident.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1083830/
@[email protected] @[email protected] Thank you!
@[email protected] @[email protected] YOu’re welcome — it was a good question!