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Stem cell team wins 2007 Nobel for medicine

9 octobre 2007, 00:00

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Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies (photo) won the 2007 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology for their work on stem cells, prize awarder the Karolinska Institute said yesterday. The prestigious 10 million Swedish crown ($1.54 million) prize recognised the international team?s work on introducing genetic changes in mice using embroynic stem cells. Medicine is traditionally the first of the Nobels awarded each year. The prizes for achievement in science, literature and peace bearing the name of Alfred Nobel were first awarded in 1901 according to the will of the Swedish dynamite millionaire.

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