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Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Americans share Nobel Prize in medicine (AP)

Craig C. Mello right  from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester Mass. and Andrew Z. Fire of the School of Medicine at the Stanford University in California  pose next to a statue of German scientist Paul Ehrlich after being awarded the  Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter award in the Pauls Church in Frankfurt central Germany Tuesday March 14 2006.   It was announced that Mello and Fire share  the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine Monday Oct. 2 2006  for discovering a way to turn off the effect of specific genes.   (AP Photo/Michael Probst)AP - Two Americans won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discovering a way to silence specific genes a revolutionary finding that scientists are scrambling to harness for fighting illnesses as diverse as cancer heart disease and AIDS.


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