What nationality was Mario Capecchi at birth?
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Italian by birth, Mario Capecchi was an Italian-American geneticist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2007 with Oliver Smithies and Martin Evans for their work on homologous recombination in embryonic stem cells. Capecchi's research focused on gene targeting, a technique that allows scientists to alter specific genes in an organism's DNA.
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