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Article: Nobel winner went to Antioch College Mario Capecchi, who came to America from Italy after WWII, was recognized for his work in genetics.
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- Dayton Daily News
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- October 10, 2007
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YELLOW SPRINGS -- There was an important stop on the unusual road
to a Nobel Prize for Italian-born geneticist Mario R. Capecchi.
Before he was a student of Nobel laureate James Watson, who co-
discovered the structure of DNA, and before he graduated Harvard with
a Ph.D. in biophysics in 1967, Capecchi studied at Antioch College.
He graduated in 1961 with a bachelor of science in chemistry and
physics.
On Monday, Capecchi, now a distinguished professor of human
genetics and biology at the University of Utah, won the 2007 Nobel
Prize in Medicine or Physiology for a groundbreaking technique using
embryonic stem cells to mutate the genes of mice.
The technology, called gene targeting, is now ...