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2 Americans Win 2006 Nobel Prize in Medicine
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?r=279&ctl=14344D8:5F753BCA39991A3BA14DBD912D5B44409574F7DCC14957C0 Andrew Fire and
Craig Mello won award for discovery of "R.N.A. interference" Two
physicians from the United States have won this year's Nobel Prize for
medicine, for their discovery of a fundamental mechanism controlling
the flow of genetic information.







Craig C. Mello, right, from Howard Hughes Medical Institute at
Massachusetts Medical School and Andrew Z. Fire of School of Medicine
at Stanford University in California, pose next to statue of German
scientist Paul Ehrlich In Stockholm, Sweden, the Nobel Assembly said
Andrew Fire and Craig Mello won the award for the discovery of "R.N.A.
interference," which they published in a 1998 report. R.N.A.
interference is important in the defense against viruses and may lead
to unprecedented therapies to reverse crippling diseases.

Fire is a professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, while
Mello is professor of molecular medicine at Massachusetts Medical
School.

The two men will share the Nobel prize for medicine, which this year
is worth over $1.3 million. Their Nobel medals will be presented at a
ceremony in Stockholm in December.

Last year's medicine prize went to Australians Barry J. Marshall and
Robin Warren for discovering that bacteria, not stress, causes ulcers.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP, and AP .


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