Nobel Prize for Medicine Announced

(08 oct 07-RV) Sweden's Karolinska Institute today announced that three researchers who pioneered the creation of "designer mice" to track the role of different genes in human development and disease have won the 2007 Nobel medicine prize. The prestigious 10 million Swedish crown award recognised Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies for helping forge a new branch of medicine -- gene targeting. The Karolinska Institute said the work of the three revealed "the roles of numerous genes in embryonic development, adult physiology, aging and disease". Fr Tad Pacholychzyk, Ph.D. is a neuroscientist and Staff Ethicist at the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia...