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Craig Mello is a molecular biology specialist with an H-index of 64 at UMass Medical School (Member). Has been published in Nature, Cell, Science. Based in Unknown, Unknown, Global.
Biography
Craig Cameron Mello 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.
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Key Publications
Biogenesis and function of tRNA fragments during sperm maturation and fertilization in mammals.
Micromanaging insulin secretion.
RNAi (Nematodes: Caenorhabditis elegans).
Casein kinase II promotes piRNA production through direct phosphorylation of USTC component TOFU-4.
The nuclear Argonaute HRDE-1 directs target gene re-localization and shuttles to nuage to promote small RNA-mediated inherited silencing.
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