Nobel Prize Goes to SF Scientist by Ellen Alday. San Francisco Chronicle. October 8, 2012.
The 2012 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine was awarded to Shinya Yamanaka and John Gurdon. Gurdon showed that it was possible to take any body cell, transplant it into a stem cell, and then reprogram it to become any other type of body cell. Yamanaka developed techniques to regress an adult cell back to its immature stem cell state. Among the many possible uses of these discovery is developing cardiac cells from skin to replace those damaged in a heart attack.
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