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Ex-Bucks man one of Nobel Prize.
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Morning Call (Allentown, PA)
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October 10, 2007
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Byline: Tracy Jordan
Oct. 10--A former Bucks County man was among three scientists awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday for his work altering genes in mice for medical research.
Mario Capecchi, formerly of Southampton Township and a 1956 graduate of the George School in Newtown, got the award with Oliver Smithies of North Carolina and Martin Evans of the United Kingdom.
The scientists determined how to inactivate single genes in mice to reproduce human maladies so mice could be used in the pharmaceutical industry to test new drugs.
Capecchi, 70, a geneticist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, and Smithies, 82, of the University of North ...
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