Gene experts win Nobel Medicine Prize

Updated: 19:42, Monday, 7 October 2002

Three researchers have been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine for work on how genes regulate organ development and cell death.

Three researchers have been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine for work on how genes regulate organ development and cell death.

Sydney Brenner and Sir John Sulston of Britain and Robert Horvitz of the United States will share the $1m prize.

In its citation, the Nobel committee said their work had shed new light on how diseases develop and could open the way to major discoveries in cell-related diseases such as cancer.

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