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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006

"for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA"
Andrew Z. Fire Craig C. Mello
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Andrew Z. Fire Craig C. Mello
half 1/2 of the prize half 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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