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3 unusual facts about Andrew Fire


David Baulcombe

In 1998 Craig Mello and Andrew Fire reported a potent gene silencing effect after injecting double stranded RNA into C. elegans.

Thomas Tuschl

In 2006, two of Tuschl's fellow researchers, Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of "RNA interference – gene silencing by double-stranded RNA".

2003: Co-recipient (with Craig Mello, Andrew Fire and David Baulcombe) of the Wiley Prize in the Biomedical Sciences, The Wiley Foundation, USA



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