The unusual mechanism of gene regulation in C. elegans was assumed to be a peculiarity of that organism, not relevant to humans or other more complex organisms.

秀丽隐杆线虫中不寻常的基因调控机制被认为是该生物的特性，与人类或其他更复杂的生物无关。

Drugs that demethylate DNA are under development, but are still some way from approval—and, in any case, interfering with epigenetics, which is a widespread mechanism of gene regulation, is a drastic approach.

让DNA反甲基化的药物还在研发中，并且还未通过临床证明。另外，外因遗传是基因调控的常见手段。从任何角度来说，干预外因遗传都是一种极端激进的做法。

The joint winners were Victor Ambros at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Gary Ruvkun at Massachusetts General Hospital for their discovery of micro-RNA (miRNA) and its role in " post-transcriptional gene regulation" .

共同获奖者为马萨诸塞大学医学院的维克多·安布罗斯 (Victor Ambros) 和马萨诸塞州总医院的加里·鲁夫昆 (Gary Ruvkun)，以表彰他们发现微小核糖核酸 (miRNA) 及其在“转录后基因调控”中的作用。