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Craig Mello
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American biologist
Craig Mello is an American biologist who is known for his scientific research contributions. (I don't have additional context provided to explain his specific discoveries or why his work matters, so I cannot write more details accurately.)
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- Works
- 1
Top works
- Difference: The Rainbow Zebra
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
Discography
- Super Producer2012
- Night Walks2015
- midnight broadcasts, vol. 12016
- midnight broadcasts, vol. 22017
- after midnight: unaired broadcasts2017
- Memories of Tokyo-To: An Ode to Jet Set Radio2018
- Return of the Soul2018
- Mindstreaming, Vol. 12018
- Atmospheric Horror Music, Vol. 12019
- Atmospheric Horror Music, Vol. 22020
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ): a 32-item checklist for interviews and focus groups
· 2007 · cited 36,089x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,673x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,797x
- International Physical Activity Questionnaire: 12-Country Reliability and Validity
· 2003 · cited 17,610x
- Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
· 1998 · cited 16,278x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1960-10-18 ) October 18, 1960 (age 65) , New Haven , Connecticut , U.S.
- Education
- Brown University ( BS ), Harvard University ( PhD )
- Known for
- RNA interference
- Awards
- Wiley Prize (2003) , NAS Award in Molecular Biology (2003) , Massry Prize (2005) , Gairdner Foundation International Award (2005) , Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2006)
- Fields
- Biologist
- Institutions
- University of Massachusetts Medical School
- Academic advisors
- Nelson Fausto , Susan Gerbi , Ken Miller , Frank Rothman , Victor Ambros , Daniel Stinchcomb
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2006
“for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA”
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Encyclopedic overview
Craig Cameron Mello (born October 18, 1960) is an American biologist and professor in the RNA Therapeutics Institute and Program for Molecular Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Chan 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 Carnegie Institution of Washington and published in 1998. Mello has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 2000.
Early life
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