Monday, October 09, 2006

Expression and Interferance gets Nobel

I'm kind of late with this post. I wanted to post when the prize of Medicine or Physiology was declared, but now Chemistry Nobel is already declared. So both at once.

Medicine or Physiology got Nobel on RNAi or RNA interferance. The work is itself simply groundbraking and marvellous. You know just after the publication, you deserve Nobel prize. Details of RNAi can be found in the following links

1. For General People.
2. Advanced Information.

It was a remarkable feat for Andrew Z. Fire & Craig C. Mello, recieving within ~ 7/8 years of reporting.

The Chemistry Prize went to Roger D Kornberg son of another Nobel Laurate Arthur D Kornberg. His work was on Eukaryote gene expression and its regulation. He coined the presence of Mediators in EK gene regulation. Details can be found in the following links

1. For General People.
2. Advanced Information.

Gene expression sweeps Nobel this year, whats next???

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