Monday
Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka shared this year’s Nobel Prize
for physiology or medicine for work that revolutionized the
understanding of how cells and organisms develop.
“By
reprogramming human cells, scientists have created new opportunities to
study diseases and develop methods for diagnosis and therapy.”
This
is the 3rd time that a Nobel Prize is awarded on a technology that we
chose as our area of research and made contributions to the field. The
other two are RNA interference (2005) and fluorescent proteins (2008).
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