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RNA Interference: Nobel Prize 2006 by SEBASTIÁN ANDRÉS BELTRÁN PRIETO is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document summarizes the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which was awarded to Andrew Fire and Craig Mello for their discovery of RNA interference (RNAi). Their seminal 1998 study showed that double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) triggers the efficient and specific suppression of gene expression in C. elegans. This discovery revealed a new mechanism of gene regulation and showed that dsRNA can induce the degradation of homologous mRNA sequences in a catalytic manner. RNAi has since been found to play i
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- SEBASTIÁN ANDRÉS BELTRÁN PRIETO
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