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SR Pharma congratulates Fire and Mello on receiving the Nobel Prize.

Publication: BIOTECH Patent News
Publication Date: 01-DEC-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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SR Pharma plc (London, United Kingdom), Europe's leading RNAi therapeutics company, congratulated Andrew Fire and Craig Mello on their receipt of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2006. They were presented with the prize at an award ceremony held at the Stockholm Concert Hall in to...

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...Stockholm, Sweden. The Nobel Prize was awarded Drs Fire and Mello for their ground breaking discovery in 1998 of RNA interference, the ability of double stranded RNA to silence disease relevant genes. This exciting discovery has already led to significant investment by both pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies as they seek to bring new RNAi therapeutics to the market.

RNA interference occurs naturally in plants, animals, and humans. It is of great...

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