The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012: Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka

Submitted by tushar pramanick on Fri, 03/15/2013 - 21:42

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012 was awarded jointly to Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent"

 

Sir John B. Gurdon

Born: 1933, Dippenhall, United Kingdom

 

 

Shinya Yamanaka

Born: 1962, Osaka, Japan

 

Note:

Information and picture collected from Official Website for Nobel Prize

link:

www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2012/

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