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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