US scientists win Nobel prize for 'gene silencing'
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.
Touch a light switch, catch a cold, study finds
WASHINGTON (Reuters): Someone with a cold may just have left a little drop of virus on the light switch for you to pick up and infect yourself with, researchers found in a real-life look at how colds get passed around.
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