Craig Mello
Craig Mello
Craig Cameron Mellois an American biologist and professor of molecular medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Andrew Z. Fire, for the discovery of RNA interference. This research was conducted at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and published in 1998. Mello has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 2000...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth18 October 1960
CountryUnited States of America
RNA interference has proven to be a quite reliable mechanism for turning genes off in a whole variety of different plants and animals.
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