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Nobel Causes

By Katherine Bourzac, SM '04

Andrew Fire, PhD ’83, a professor of pathology and genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine, shares the 2006 Nobel Prize in medicine with Craig Mello, a professor of molecular medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, for uncovering the details of a natural gene-silencing mechanism called RNA interference.