STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - 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.
Fire, 47, and Mello, 45, are among the youngest in recent history to win the prize of 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.37 million). Their work, which was published in 1998, received remarkably swift recognition.
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