Shinya Yamanaka
b. 1962 · Japan · Medicine, Biology
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2012
Reprogrammed adult cells into stem cells, remaking regenerative medicine.
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- Elizabeth Blackburn
1948 · Medicine, Biology
Telomere biology and cell ageing frame the rejuvenation questions reprogramming raises.
- Francis Crick
1916 – 2004 · Biology
Molecular biology's programme of defined factors underlies iPS cell reprogramming.
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