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Drs. Andrew Z Fire & Craig C Mello: The Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 2006
L-R Andrew Fire Mechanism of RNAi- where siRNA small interfering RNA generated from the dsRNA by Dicer recruits RNA interference silencing complex RISC to degrade the corresponding mRNA Craig C Mello Andrew Z Fire was born in 1959 He...
Drs. Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric F. Wieschaus: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1995
Dr Edward B Lewis an American geneticist was born in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania In 1939 he obtained BA in Biostatistics from University of Minnesota where he worked with Drosophila melanogaster in C P Oliver s lab Later in 1942 he received his Ph D degr...
Galapagos Penguin: Survives On and Above Equator
The Galapagos penguin Spheniscus mendiculus is native to the Galapagos Islands It is the only penguin species that lives on and north to the equator It can survive due to the cool temperatures resulting from the Humboldt Current and cool waters brought by the C...
Sir John B. Gurdon: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2012
Sir John B Gurdon shares his birthday with father of our nation Born on October 2 1933 in United Kingdom Gurdon was a below average student Despite his teacher s ridicule he pursued his dream in sciences and became the brightest minds to be awarded a Nobel Priz...
