Natureより
ちと長いけど引用する。
Most of the six points cited in support of the prize were not first shown by Andrew Fire or Craig Mello, who won the prize, but were already known from plant research. For example, the sequence specificity, RNA degradation and post-transcriptional nature of gene silencing had all been shown in studies on plants and plant viruses. In addition, the observation that silencing is non-cell-autonomous was first done in plants. Moreover, the models involving double-stranded RNA and amplification mechanisms had been proposed by plant researchers before the publications of RNAi mechanisms in animal systems
やっぱりでたか。
ノーベル賞だけど、医学生理学賞だけではなく、生物学賞というのを設立した方がいいのではないかなとつくづく思う。
それに、今年の化学賞も本当に化学賞といえるかどうかと言えば、かなり微妙なところだし。
