Two U.S. scientists win Nobel for 'gene silencing'
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Americans Andrew Fire and Craig Mello won the 2006 Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday for their discovery of how to switch off genes, a potential road to new treatments for diseases from AIDS to blindness and cancer.
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STOCKHOLM -- Israelis Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko and American Irwin Rose were awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry yesterday for discovering a key way cells destroy unwanted proteins -- starting with a chemical ''kiss of death.&quot;
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Israelis Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko and American Irwin Rose won the 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for discovering a key way cells destroy unwanted proteins - starting with a chemical "kiss of death."   When the process goes wrong, several hundred diseases can result, including cervical cancer and cystic fibrosis. So the work provides the basis for developing new therapies...
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Two Americans won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discovering how people can recognize an estimated 10,000 odors, from spoiled meat to a lover's perfume.    Dr...
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Two American scientists who solved the enigma of how people can smell 10,000 different odors and recall them later were awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Biologists Peter Lawrence and Gines Morata won Spain's prestigious science award Wednesday for their work showing that fruit flies and humans have much genetic material in common.
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A Norwegian and an American won the 2004 Nobel prize in economics Monday for their work in determining the consistency of economic policy and the driving force behind business cycles worldwide, work that has shown how the money supply can affect international trade.
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Two American scientists -- one of whom graduated from Fairfax High School -- awakened early yesterday to learn they will share a Nobel Prize for their discovery of a gene-regulating mechanism inside cells, an advance that in just eight years has revolutionized genetics and led to several...
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The two Nobel Prize laureates, Avraham Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover, began working on their research into the ubiquitin system in 1981 when Hershko oversaw Ciechanover&#39;s doctoral thesis
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American Roger Kornberg won the 2006 Nobel prize for chemistry on Wednesday for describing the essential process of gene copying in cells, research that can give insight into illnesses such as cancer and heart disease.
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Two Johns Hopkins University scientists have been selected to receive the nation's highest scientific honor.
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American Roger Kornberg, the son of a Nobel laureate, won the 2006 Nobel chemistry prize on Wednesday for showing how genes are copied, a process essential to how cells develop and to life itself.
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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN -- Two Israelis and an American won the Nobel Prize in chemistry yesterday for showing how cells can give a &quot;kiss of death&quot; to destroy unwanted proteins, a finding that could help scientists find new medicines for cancer and other
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Spanish drug company Zeltia said it had  set up a new biotechnology arm to investigate gene silencing,  an area of medicine from research that won this week's Nobel  Prize.
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Two Israelis and an American won the Nobel Prize in  Chemistry yesterday for discovering the method by which cells tag proteins that are defective or have outlived their usefulness and direct them to the cellular machinery that grinds them up into reusable parts.
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Two Israelis and an American won the  2004 Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday for helping to  understand how the human body gives the "kiss of death" to  faulty proteins to defend itself from diseases like cancer.
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RNA interference, whose discovery  brought Americans Andrew Fire and Craig Mello the Nobel Prize  in Medicine on Monday, is one of the hottest new areas of  biotechnology and has spawned its own mini-industry.