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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007

"for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells"
Mario R. Capecchi Sir Martin J. Evans Oliver Smithies
Photo: U. Montan Photo: U. Montan Photo: U. Montan
Mario R. Capecchi Sir Martin J. Evans Oliver Smithies
third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize
USA United Kingdom USA
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Cardiff University
Cardiff, United Kingdom		 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
b. 1937
(in Italy)		 b. 1941 b. 1925
(in United Kingdom)
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