WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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.
The two researchers discovered that little pieces of genetic material called RNA could silence genes -- turning them off and altering a cell's functions.
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