Combined, these two came up with cures that were unimaginable.
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Combined, these two came up with cures that were unimaginable.
The winners of the 2006 Nobel Prize in medicine may someday be remembered as the Guys Who Figured Out How to Cure Almost Everything. Nine years ago, a research team led by Andrew Fire (far left, now at Stanford) and Craig Mello (of the University of Massachusetts) discovered how to trigger a phenomenon called RNA interference, a natural mechanism for turning off genes (especially those that can hurt us). Biotech companies jumped in to work on treatments for Parkinson's, diabetes, AIDS, liver failure and many other maladies.
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