Mario R. Capecchi, Ph.D., professor of human genetics and biology at the University of Utah's Eccles Institute of Human Genetics and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is a co-recipient of this yearÃs Nobel Prize in medicine, awarded August 8, 2007. Smithies shares the award with American Mario R. Capecchi and Briton Martin J. Evans for developing a gene-targeting technique in mice. (UPI Photo/Dirk Douglass/University of Utah)
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ATLANTA, June 17 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists studying syphilis bacteria say they have found genetic variations that could have significant clinical and epidemiological importance.
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COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y., Jan. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists are racing to save the Tasmanian devil from extinction from a unique, transmissible and rapidly spreading cancer.