STOCKHOLM -- Two Americans and a Swiss won the Nobel Prize for medicine for their discovery of a method to break apart genetic material that may be an important step in the understanding of cancer and hereditary diseases.
Microbiologists Daniel Nathans and Hamilton O. Smith of Johns Hopkins University Medical School and Werner Arber of the University of Basel were the winners of the annual award.
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