Two American men, Craig Mello and Andrew Fire have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2006 for their work on RNA Interference and their discovery of a "fundamental mechanism for controlling the flow of genetic information." Could this be the beginning of a USA sweep of the Nobel season? It certainly could-nay, must.
Now, you might be asking yourself, "Wasn't their seminal paper published in 1998? And doesn't it usually take decades for the committee to recognize recipients?" Yes. And yes. You may also have noticed that the winners have great abbreviated names--C. Mello and A. Fire--that could have resulted in some seriously misleading headlines about a firefighting basketball superstar scientist.
