Birth · 18 October 1960

Birth of Craig C. Mello

American biologist Craig C. Mello, later joint recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of RNA interference, was born on 18 October 1960.

Archival photograph of the New York Foundling Hospital operating room circa 1899. — Operating room in New York, circa 1899. Contextual archival photograph, not the event described.
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Byron Company / Museum of the City of New York / Wikimedia Commons · Domaine public · photographie de 1899
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Craig C. Mello · Facts
Nobel Prize Outreach · Historical date : 1960-10-18

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