Nobel cause.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2006 was awarded jointly to Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello for their discovery of "RNA interferance - gene silencing by double stranded RNA."









The full text of the research can be viewed at the following link:
(Nobel prize press release):

RNA interference

This year's recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry -- Roger D. Kornberg -- obtained the first actual pictures at the molecular level that reveal how the genetic information stored in genes is relayed so that it can be used by the body. He obtained those images in a group of organisms that includes humans.

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Among the journals in which Kornberg has published is the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The ACS weekly newsmagazine, Chemical & Engineering News, ran an extensive article on chemistry's role in the genetics revolution in its March 10, 2003, issue. That story is available at:

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/8110/print/8110dna.html.

other winners:
Nobel prize in Physics to John C. Mather and George F. Smoot
"for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation"

Nobel prize for Economics Edmund S. Phelps
"for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy"

Nobel Homepage:

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