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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006
"for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA"
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Andrew Z. Fire
Craig C. Mello
1/2 of the prize
1/2 of the prize
USA
USA
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA, USA
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA, USA
b. 1959
b. 1960
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