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Mario Renato Capecchi is an Italian molecular geneticist,a naturalized Americanand a co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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He is currently Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics and Biology at the University of Utah Schoolof Medicine.
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Mario Capecchi is particularly well known for his pioneering work in gene targeting of the mouse embryo-derived stem cells which enabled other transgenic technologies including cloning and genetic modification.
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This work was accomplished throughthe efforts of Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies working on the knockout mice.
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This work was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology.
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