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By Charlie Spiering Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Not the principal but his brother.
Residents of Rappahannock County were surprised Monday as they discovered that Craig C. Mello, one of the winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, is the older brother of Rappahannock High School Principal Roger Mello.
“Itll be good for him,” the younger Mello said with a chuckle. “He’s been down since I whipped him three straight games of Scrabble last summer.”
Craig Mello and his colleague, Andrew Z. Fire, were awarded the prize for chscovering a method of turning off selected genes, an important research tool that scientists hope will lead to new treatments for HIV/AIDS, cancer and other illnesses. The process discovered by Fire and Mello is called RNA interference, or RNAi. It occurs in plant and animal life, including humans.
RNAi is important in regulating gene activity and in fighting off viruses. RNAi has become a standard research tool since the two scientists published their work in 1998.
Principal Mello is happy for his big brother. “Our whole family is very proud of his achievement,” he said. “We’re all talking about going to Stockholm for the
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