Americans share Nobel Prize in medicine
(AP)


<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061002/ap_on_sc/nobel_medicine"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061002/capt.79b61d92abb34ad4a922229fdb4dbe28.aptopix_nobel_medicine_ny110.jpg?x=100&y=130&sig=iR6k926YXTYF9g_BsAjkkQ--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="Craig C. Mello, right, from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Mass., and Andrew Z. Fire of the School of Medicine at the Stanford University in California, pose next to a statue of German scientist Paul Ehrlich after being awarded the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter award in the Pauls Church in Frankfurt, central Germany, Tuesday, March 14, 2006. It was announced that Mello and Fire share the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine Monday, Oct. 2, 2006, for discovering a way to turn off the effect of specific genes. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)" border="0" /></a>AP - Two Americans won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discovering a way to silence specific genes, a revolutionary finding that scientists are scrambling to harness for fighting illnesses as diverse as cancer, heart disease and AIDS.</p><br clear="all"/>