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Sharp and Richard J. Roberts won their own. The Massachusetts-based scientists were named co-recipients of the Nobel Prize in medicine and will share an $825,000 prize. "It felt good this morning, folks," Sharp said at a news conference hours after his wake-up call from the Nobel committee in Stockholm, Sweden. "Everybody doing science wants to feel they are going to make a discovery that everybody will look up to," Roberts said at a separate news conference. "But 1 think there's a different kind of satisfaction that comes when you realize that all of your col leagues also think it was a great discovery." Sharp, 49, a native of Falmouth, Ky., heads the bi ology department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Roberts, 50, a native of Derby, England, works at New England Biolabs in Beverly, Mass. Their work changed scientists' understanding about DNA makeup and helped launch the field of biotechnology. Genes had been thought to be unbroken segments along strands of DNA. Roberts and Sharp discovered win Nobel Prize that individual genes can also be discontinuous. "Everybody thought that genes were laid out in exactly the same way, and so it came as a tremen dous surprise at the time," Roberts said in an inter view. The Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institute said Sharp and Roberts' research "has been of funda mental importance for today's basic research in biol ogy, as well as for more medically oriented research concerning the development of cancer and other dis eases." Scientists found that in humans and other higher organisms, DNA includes separated gene segments that contain information to build proteins along with "nonsense DNA," or introns, that has no protein message. To construct working proteins from such gene segments, cells have to assemble correctly the infor mation from them. When this process goes awry, the result can be cancer or other diseases. Some scientists believe that the physical re arrangement of gene segments may speed the evolu tion of man and other higher animals. Roberts said he "stumbled" upon the discovery. "We were looking for something completely dif ferent and things didn't quite work out the way we expected, so we followed through to find out," he said. Sharp said he was "fortunate to be in the right place at the right time doing the right experiment." if e \\fe editor irt5 editor -ports editor ja n ch Ki ng a nd J° eLe * ^ John Scro88 s ' 3ueZ adaand MM Universe the Divisio 1 ' i Ved McD 0 " 1 advertising' Monday thrw ill ^ ■ear. Tod itiaig* "I’M GRADUATING... WHAT’S NEXT?!?’’ CONGRATULATIONS! It's been tough, but you made it! Now it's time to consider your options. Are you dreaming of success or only paying the rent? Will you settle for "just a job" or do you want to build a stimulating, interesting career? At UCS/FDCS, we have many entry-level positions perfect for college graduates with any degree plan. 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