Prémio Nobel da Medicina 2007

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The 2007 Nobel Prize in Medicine was just awarded to three distinguished researchers who have devoted their professional lives to the study of genetics -- for the purpose of finding therapies and cures for hundreds of disorders and diseases.

The 2007 Nobel winners, Mario R. Capecchi, 70, of the University of Utah; Oliver Smithies, 82, of the University of North Carolina; and Sir Martin J. Evans, 66, of Cardiff University in Wales - worked independently, but their research overlapped greatly. Many other geneticists contributed to the state of the art, but the discoveries of Capecchi, Smithies, and Evans are considered watershed.

O que fizeram os laureados em 2007, para o progresso da Medicina:

1. Targeted genes responsible for specific diseases and disorders.
2. Re-combined diseased genes with normal genes to treat or eliminate specific disease.
3. Established that healthy embryonic stem cells (ES) are the only genes that can positively affect the inheritance factor in disease.