Two U.S. scientists win Nobel for 'gene silencing'

Two U.S. scientists win Nobel for 'gene silencing'

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Feet1st
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Message 28828 - Posted 2 Oct 2006 21:11:53 UTC
"...a potential road to new treatments for diseases from AIDS to blindness and cancer."

"...can "silence" targeted genes in a process known as RNA interference (RNAi)."

"...used RNAi to kill HIV, the virus that causes AIDS."

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Message 28845 - Posted 3 Oct 2006 2:58:59 UTC - in response to Message ID 28828.
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"...a potential road to new treatments for diseases from AIDS to blindness and cancer."
...I guess "solving the protein folding problem" would also be worthy of a Nobel prize - and we might one day all have our tiny little share in that prize - at least this is something to dream about (it is late at night over here) - and something I haven't yet seen on any of the "reasons why I crunch for Rosetta" pages. And now lets all imagine DB wearing a tailcoat as he approaches the Swedish King... ok, time to get some more sleep. ;-)

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