Andrew Z Fire received a share of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering RNA interference. His experiments demonstrated how double-stranded RNA can selectively silence gene expression.
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Andrew Z Fire
Nobel Prize history for Andrew Z Fire based on the award records stored in the World History Database.
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