2012 medicine Nobel honors research on reprogramming adult cells ...

Gurdon's work, published in 1962, forever changed the view that adult cells are stuck in their fate. In a series of experiments, he transplanted the nucleus — the cellular compartment that contains DNA — from an intestinal cell ...

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Scientists win Nobel Prize for adult stem cell research

John B. Gurdon of the U.K. and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan shared this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work in so-called cellular reprogramming, which has unleashed a wave of advances in everything ...

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Scientists win Nobel Prize for adult stem cell research

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