Today was a big science day in my world, and I heard it all on OPB coming in to work!
**The Nobel Prize for Medicine went to 3 independent researchers, Mario R. Capecchi, Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies, for their discoveries of "principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells". Basically, they invented knockout-mice, which are used ubiquitously in research these days.
My link to this story? My old boss Scott came from Mario Capecchi's lab in Utah, where he made the mice that I worked on during grad school. So I'm the scientific grand-child to a Nobel Prize winner!
**In local news, my current boss Kent and his colleague just published an epidemiological study linking breast cancer and a women's hip size. OPB's Oregon Considered will air a story about it this afternoon at 4:30. These types of studies have a lot of impact, but they just begin to open up areas for in-depth research to figure out the mechanisms and biology behind it all. Guess I have some work to do~
C**
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I heard that story on my way home today!
Very interesting...
Heidi
Yes, the interviewee was David Barker, Kent's new best-collaborator-friend. He's a funny English epidemiologist. I'll have to give you the details later~
Carley**
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