Monday, October 8, 2007
EuroNewsEuroNews : Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded
EuroNewsEuroNews : Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded: "The Nobel prizegiving season has kicked off with the awarding of the Medicine prize to a trio of Anglo-Americans.
Mario Capecchi, born in Italy, and Oliver Smithies, born in Britain, are Americans. Martin Evans is British. Their work in the genetics field has led to a new branch of medicine known as "gene targeting", which allows scientists to turn off certain genes to establish individual gene's roles in health and disease.
The prize-awarding Karolinska institute in Stockholm says it believes the men's work will increase in value in the years to come. The three will share the over one million euro prize."
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