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[英文]
11 The one-two research punch that allowed the creation of
designer mice has earned the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine.Mario Capecchi, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute
investigator at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Oliver Smithies of
5 the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Martin Evans of Cardiff
University, U.K., will share the prize for developing the techniques to
make knockout mice, animals that lack a specific gene or genes. Such
mice have allowed scientists to learn the roles of thousands of
mammalian genes and provided laboratory models of human afflictions
10 in which to test potential therapies.」