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Professors Andrew Fire (right) and Craig Mello from Stanford University and University of Massachusetts, respectively, won the Nobel medicine prize on 2 October for discovering RNA interference [wiki]--a fundamental mechanism for controlling the flow of genetic information, just eight years [the Nobel committees typically honor discoveries that have been tested over decades] after they first published their work [on Nature in 1998]. Congrats!
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