"Designer mice" pioneers win Nobel for medicine


  • World
  • Monday, 08 Oct 2007

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The researchers who pioneered the creation of "designer mice" to track the role of different genes in human development and disease have won the 2007 Nobel medicine prize, Sweden's Karolinska Institute said on Monday. 

The prestigious 10 million Swedish crown ($1.54 million) prize recognised Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies for helping discover "the roles of numerous genes in embryonic development, adult physiology, aging and disease". 

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