четверг, 13 марта 2008 г.

2007 Noble Prize, Mario R.Capecchi!







Mario R. Capecchi, Ph.D., of the University of Utah, has won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Capecchi shares the prize with Oliver Smithies of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Sir Martin Evans of Cardiff University in the UK.


The prize recognizes Capecchi’s pioneering work on “knockout mice” technology, a gene-targeting technique that has revolutionized genetic and biomedical research, allowing the creation of animal models for hundreds of human diseases.

Go to this link for futher reading http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/features/knockout/

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