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 ...

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, ...

Ten years after Shinya Yamanaka published his Nobel Prize-winning discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells, there's been rapid progress in some areas and major challenges in others. Skip to ... who ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

The 2012 Nobel prize-winning discovery that ordinary cells could be coaxed to revert to their earliest pluripotent stage ushered in the era of ethical stem cell research. Suddenly, scientists can ...

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 ...

We could potentially repair or replace tissues with an effectively infinite supply of a patient's own cells. Although the Nobel Prize for induced stem cells was handed out over a decade ago, the ...

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 ...