Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka wins Nobel prize

Shinya Yamanaka of Japan has won the Nobel Medicine Prize for his "groundbreaking" work on stem cells.

But even as the country's industries exploded in the 1970s, his father told him he should not follow the traditional Japanese path and take over the family business, but become a doctor.

Half a century later and after a stint as an orthopaedic surgeon, he is a leading authority on how cells work.

Kyoto University-based Yamanaka was being celebrated Monday for his work, alongside Briton John Gurdon, on how cells can be reprogrammed.

So-called "nuclear reprogramming" uses a fully-developed adult cell to create a...

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Big news for Japan. A professor at Kyoto University has been awarded a Nobel Prize for a controversial technology.

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