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Bay State researchers share 'America's Nobel Prize'

By Carolyn Y. Johnson
Globe Staff / September 14, 2008

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Two Massachusetts researchers who discovered a natural dimmer switch in cells that can turn down the effects of genes are the winners of an Albert Lasker Medical Research Award, an honor sometimes called "America's Nobel Prize." (Full article: 466 words)

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