This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to linkurl:Mario Capecchi;http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/14469/ , Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies for developing the method of gene targeting in mice leading to the "knock out" mice used today as models of human disease. The trio of scientists received the linkurl:Lasker award;http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/19901/ for Medical Research in 2001 for their achievements. Read more about the prize in our daily news

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Discovery of dendritic cells, invention of prosthetic heart valves and programs in AIDS treatment and biodefense are honored linkurl:Ralph Steinman;http://www.rockefeller.edu/research/abstract.php?id=150 of the Rockefeller University in New York will receive the 2007 Albert Lasker Award for Outstanding Basic Medical Research for his discovery of dendritic cells and his work in elucidating their function as sentinels of the immune system, the linkurl:Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation;http://www

Discovery of dendritic cells, invention of prosthetic heart valves and programs in AIDS treatment and biodefense are honored

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