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

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Feet1st Send message Joined: 30 Dec 05 Posts: 1755 Credit: 4,690,520 RAC: 0	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." View the full story here. Add this signature to your EMail: Running Microsoft's "System Idle Process" will never help cure cancer, AIDS nor Alzheimer's. But running Rosetta@home just might! https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ ID: 28828 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Hoelder1in Send message Joined: 30 Sep 05 Posts: 169 Credit: 3,915,947 RAC: 0	Message 28845 - Posted: 3 Oct 2006, 2:58:59 UTC - in response to Message 28828. Last modified: 3 Oct 2006, 2:59:37 UTC "...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. ;-) Team betterhumans.com - discuss and celebrate the future - hoelder1in.org ID: 28845 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote