Shinya Yamanaka of Japan and John Gurdon of Britain have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their research on stem cells, the Karonlinska Institute in Stockholm announced Monday.
From the AP:
British researcher John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan won this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for the discovery that mature, specialized cells of the body can be reprogrammed into blank slates that can become any kind of cell.
The prize committee at Stockholm’s Karonlinska institute said the discovery has “revolutionized our understanding of how cells and organisms develop.”
