physiology

Her father worked as a GP and her mother was a physiology professor.

“It is incredibly exciting because it is giving us new insights into physiology, anatomy, a new understanding of humans,” she told BBC news.

The medicine and physiology prize winners are selected by the Nobel Assembly of Sweden's Karolinska Institute.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 has been awarded to US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their work on microRNA.

As Kinglsey added, "This research had identified some of the key players involved in developing legs and taste in sea robins. We still have to find what exactly has happened at the DNA level to redeploy ancient genes into new functions. Amy Herbert and Corey Allard are about to start their own labs at the University of Chicago and at Harvard. They will have a ton of cool problems to work in sea robins and other organisms that can now be studied using these new tools in genetics, genomicsand physiology."