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Article: Attention is new for Capecchi
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- December 9, 2007
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Editor's note: Award-winning Deseret Morning News writer Lois M.
Collins is in Sweden this week covering the awarding of the Nobel
Prize in medicine to Mario Capecchi, distinguished U. professor of
human genetics and biology.
STOCKHOLM -- Mario Capecchi says that since he won the Nobel
Prize for medicine, "the science hasn't changed. My lab hasn't
changed. The things that count don't change."
But there's no question, he admits, that he's getting a lot more
attention, and "that's a change. I'm having more interaction with
the public."
In Sweden, at least, that means he's signed a lot of autographs
in the past three days.
Saturday morning, in what has been a hectic schedule for the
Nobel ...