STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Three researchers who pioneered the creation of "designer mice" to track the role of different genes in human development and disease won the 2007 Nobel medicine prize on Monday.
The prestigious 10 million Swedish crown ($1.54 million) award recognised Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies for helping forge a new and fundamental branch of medicine -- gene targeting. Italian-born Capecchi is a U.S. citizen, as is Smithies. Evans and Smithies are British-born.
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