Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006

Andrew Z. Fire

Photo: Linda Cicero. Nobel Foundation archive

Prize share: 1/2

Craig C. Mello

Photo: J. Mottern. Nobel Foundation archive

Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006 was awarded jointly to Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello "for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA"

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