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  Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine awarded for discovery of microRNA American scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine Monday for the discovery of microRNAs, a class of tiny molecules that have been connected to heart disease, a wide variety of cancers and viral diseases. Mutations in microRNAs, just like those in genes, can lead to diseases, and fixing or replacing mutant microRNAs may prove crucial to developing treatments. Ambros and Ruvkun figured out that these small molecules have the power to reduce or block production of proteins, responsible for virtually every human action from breathing to thinking. Not to be confused with messenger RNA — which acts as a “middleman” in the process of translating genetic material into proteins — microRNAs add a crucial, previously unrecognized layer to the process. MicroRNAs can bind on to the messenger RNA and are able to help cells regulate the kinds and amounts of proteins that ar...

  Key Points Vice President Kamala Harris sat for an interview with Alex Cooper on the sex-positive “Call Her Daddy” podcast. Harris criticized Donald Trump, her presidential election opponent, for the Republican’s track record on abortion and women’s rights. The “Call Her Daddy” podcast is largely popular with young women, a voter base that Harris already polls strongly with. Vice President Kamala Harris sits for an interview with Alex Cooper on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast. Call Her Daddy Vice President  Kamala Harris  was all business in an interview on the sex-positive “ Call Her Daddy ” podcast that aired Sunday. Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, spent the bulk of the roughly 40-minute conversation litigating her case against  Donald Trump , blasting the Republican nominee’s track record on  abortion  and women’s rights. “There are now 20 states with Trump abortion bans,” Harris told “Call her Daddy” host Alex Cooper. “This is the same g...

  Reese Witherspoon has recently shared “a-ha” moments in her life as a single mother in her late 20s. Speaking at Hello Sunshine's second annual Shine Away event in Los Angeles on October 5, the  Sweet Home Alabama  actress responded to a question about finding her voice, via  PEOPLE . Reese noted, “There are so many moments before sharing that what I love about Hello Sunshine is that we look for stories that women saved themselves.” “Because every woman in this room has saved herself, be it financial situation, an education situation, a bad relationship, you had to save yourself,” remarked the 48-year-old. The  Legally Blonde  star mentioned, “There's a moment in all of our lives when you realise, no wait, no one's coming to help, no one's coming to make that decision.” “For me, I have to make that decision. I've had a lot of those,” she continued. Reese added, “Being a single mom when I was in my late twenties, I had to make a lot of decisions for my t...