Reacción a "Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology awarded to Ambros and Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNAs and their role in gene regulation"

Victor and Gary used the awesome power of C. elegans genetics to discover microRNAs.  At the time, they were working to understand how nematodes develop from embryos to adults and identified important genes that coded for RNA but not for protein—which was not how biology was thought to work at this time.  Victor and Gary’s work led directly to the realization that microRNAs are a crucial mechanism for gene regulation across the tree of life including humans.