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Article: Mario Capecchi, laureate
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- December 12, 2007
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In a tribute replete with royalty and trumpet fanfare, University
of Utah distinguished professor Mario Capecchi has been awarded one
of medicine's highest honors, the Nobel Prize in physiology or
medicine. Capecchi, who emigrated as a child to the United States
from Italy following World War II, shared the prize with Oliver
Smithies of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and Sir
Martin J. Evans, of Britain. They and other Nobel laureates in
science and literature were honored Monday in Stockholm, Sweden.
Capecchi, Smithies and Evans were recognized for discoveries that
led to a technique for manipulating mouse genes.
Their accomplishments and that of their fellow laureates ...