Nobel Prize for Medicine: Silence is golden for US laureates (Update 3)

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Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello
Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello

Two US scientists, Andrew Fire and Craig Mello, on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize for discovering how to silence malfunctioning genes, a breakthrough which could lead to an era of new therapies to reverse crippling disease.


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