Monday, October 8, 2007
blogging various things biotech...: Nobel Season and a note on RNA
blogging various things biotech...: Nobel Season and a note on RNA
Nobel Season. In the Pipeline:
Interesting to note:The Nobel in Medicine has gone this year to the inventors of gene-knockout techniques for mice, which seems well-deserved, considering how much has been learned through such experiments. This is, in fact, one of those discoveries that you'd think was already recognized by a Nobel if you hadn't been keeping count, which is as good a criterion as any. (It's rather odd, for example, that gene knockouts were recognized after RNA interference, don't you think, since a good ten or fifteen years separate the two in real life?)
My previous post noted that over 46,000 hits came up for "knock-out mice" search on PubMed. Interesting, RNAi gets only 9868, Certainly not a perfect measures but informative on some level.
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