Medicine Nobel for discovery that adult cells can be reprogrammed
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«British John Gurdon and Japanese Shinya Yamanaka Japanese won the Nobel Prize forMedicine in 2012 for the discovery that adult cells, as a specialized organ, can be reprogrammed to return to a past in which they have the characteristics of stem cells from embryos. And thereafter, they can give origin to all tissues of the human body. The announcement was made this morning by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute inSweden.»