Of Mice & Nobel Prize winning Men

"Americans Mario R. Capecchi and Oliver Smithies and Briton Martin J. Evans won the 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for groundbreaking discoveries that led to a powerful technology known as gene targeting in mice.

The process has been used to help science determine why some diseases, such as cystic fibrosis, strike people at a cellular level, as well as models in mice that show how human disorders like cardiovascular and neuro-degenerative ailments, along with diabetes and cancer, exist and strike otherwise healthy people..."

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