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

Their discoveries help explain how complex life emerged on Earth and how the human body is made up of a wide variety of different tissues.

MicroRNAs influence how genes - the instructions for life - are controlled inside organisms, including us.

The winners share a prize fund worth 11m Swedish kronor (£810,000).

Every cell in the human body contains the same raw genetic information, locked in our DNA.

However, despite starting with the identical genetic information, the cells of the human body are wildly different in form and function.