Nobel Labs > Oliver Smithies
Oliver Smithies received the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine 2007 together with Mario R. Capecchi and Sir Martin J. Evans "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells". Find out more about the gel-kidney approach that Smithies applies in his lab and become acquainted with the methods he uses for measuring the blood pressure of mice. Smithies also tells you more about his other passion aside from science: flying!