STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The winners of this year's Nobel Prize in medicine call the honor "enjoyable," "gratifying" and "a fantastic surprise."
Americans Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies and Briton Martin Evans were awarded the prize for developing a technology known as gene targeting. The widely used process has helped scientists use mice to study heart disease, diabetes, cancer, cystic fibrosis and other diseases.
Capecchi, 70, who was born in Italy, is at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Smithies, 82, born in Britain, is at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Evans is at Cardiff University in England.
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