Mario Capecchi
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Mario Capecchi is a molecular geneticist who won the Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work in genetics. His research has been important to the field of genetic science and has contributed to our understanding of how genes function.
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Mario Ramberg Capecchi (born October 6, 1937) is an Italian-born American molecular geneticist and a co-awardee of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a method to create mice in which a specific gene is turned off, known as knockout mice. He shared the prize with Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics and Biology at the University of Utah School of Medicine.
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