Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Nobel Prize In Medicine

Respectable scientists:

Andrew Fire And Craig Mello


US scientists, Andrew Fire, Stanford University School of Medicine, and Craig Mello, University of Massachusetts Medical School, won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their research that discovered the fundamental mechanism that regulates the movement of genetic data in humans, animals and plants.
RNA interference is currently used extensively in basic science as a method to study gene function - this research should lead to new future therapies.
RNA interference is crucial for the regulation of gene expression. It participates in the defence against viral infections

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