Oliver Smithies Gets Nobel

Congratulations to Prof. Oliver Smithies for sharing the Nobel Prize in medicine along with another American and a Brit. Dr. Smithies discovered the gene targeting technique that allowed for knocking out genes in mice. These mice are now routinely used in medical research. He was a professor in the Department of Genetics at the Univ. of Wisconsin when I was a grad student there. Over 10,000 different genes have been knocked out in mice.