With Yamanaka’s discovery, researchers suddenly had a way of studying pluripotent stem cells without destroying embryos—a limitation that had caused countless headaches at the time of Yamanaka ...

Two scientists who discovered the developmental clock could be turned back in mature cells, transforming them into immature cells with the ability to become any tissue in the body — pluripotent ...

INSKEEP: So for their work with these cells, two men share the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. ... And even, you know, induced pluripotent stem cells are not without some controversy.

Kyoto University Professor Shinya Yamanaka (L) and John Gurdon of the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge are seen at a symposium on induced pluripotent stem cell in Tokyo, in this photo taken by Kyodo ...

Induced pluripotent stem cells also offer a possible alternative to human embryonic stem cells, which are controversial because they are obtained from embryos. Stem cells Nobel Prize in medicine ...

These induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, hold great promise for research. Pluripotency refers to the capacity of a cell to become nearly any type of cell in the body — a characteristic of ...

Oct. 10, 2023 — Generating specific cell lineages from induced pluripotent stem cells and embryonic stem cells is the holy grail of regenerative medicine. Guiding iPSCs toward a target cell line ...

Nobel Prize honors two stem cell research stars. By Jon Bardin . ... The cells Yamanaka created in mice -- and, a year later, in humans -- are known as induced pluripotent stem cells, ...

John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka jointly take home this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine for turning back the developmental clock. ... genes are capable of reprogramming an adult mouse cell into a ...

The prize also recognizes Gladstone Senior Investigator Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, who received a Nobel Prize in 2012 for his discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells), which are ...

Stem Cell Discoveries Snag Nobel Prize in Medicine. News. By Jeanna Bryner published 8 October 2012 ... Scientists can now derive such induced pluripotent stem cells from adult nerve, ...