Craig Mello Quotes

Craig Mello — American Scientist born on October 18, 1960,

Craig Cameron Mello is an American biologist and professor of molecular medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Andrew Z. Fire, for the discovery of RNA interference. This research was conducted at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and published in 1998. Mello has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 2000... (wikipedia)

RNA interference has proven to be a quite reliable mechanism for turning genes off in a whole variety of different plants and animals.

I love to do things like sail and hike, but they don't give me the satisfaction of knowing the potential of something you've learned in the lab.

I want to make a difference in the world because I believe that's what science is for.

The Pew Biomedical Scholars are a synergistic community whose connections are reinforced over the years.

One of the things that I first remember wanting to be was a 'geolisty' - that was the best I could say when I was a kid. That was right after I stopped wanting to be a fireman or a truck driver. Because my dad is a paleontologist who worked with the Smithsonian, I got to see the bones up close and the exhibits behind the scenes there.

Craig Mello Quotes

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