Hàkon
10-08-2012, 05:21 PM
Stem cells was the theme for this year's Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology wich the researchers Shinya Yamanaka (Japan) and Joseph B. Gurdon (Great Britain) now share.
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Mr. Yamanaka to your left and Mr. Gurdon to your right.
Shinya Yamanaka (50) discovered that it is possible to make fully developed cells back in their development to become unripe stem cells once again, and thereby regaining their ability to grow into different kinds of cells.
These stem cells, iPSCs*, mean a new way of developing endogenous human spare parts.
Mr. Yamanaka has since his finding was published in 2006 been a hot topic in the context of the Nobel Prize.
John B. Gurdon (79), the gentleman sharing the prize, had as early as in the year of 1962 questioned the thesis on the impossibility of changing fully developed cells.
In an attempt to test his hypothesis, he replaced the nucleus in the oocyte of a frog with the nucleus of a intestinal cell from a tadpole wich resulted in the egg developing into a tadpole.
Later he also succeded in cloning grown frogs.
http://www.nobelprize.org/
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_pluripotent_stem_cell
http://www.livemint.com/rf/Image-621x414/LiveMint/Period1/2012/10/09/Photos/Winners--621x414.jpg
Mr. Yamanaka to your left and Mr. Gurdon to your right.
Shinya Yamanaka (50) discovered that it is possible to make fully developed cells back in their development to become unripe stem cells once again, and thereby regaining their ability to grow into different kinds of cells.
These stem cells, iPSCs*, mean a new way of developing endogenous human spare parts.
Mr. Yamanaka has since his finding was published in 2006 been a hot topic in the context of the Nobel Prize.
John B. Gurdon (79), the gentleman sharing the prize, had as early as in the year of 1962 questioned the thesis on the impossibility of changing fully developed cells.
In an attempt to test his hypothesis, he replaced the nucleus in the oocyte of a frog with the nucleus of a intestinal cell from a tadpole wich resulted in the egg developing into a tadpole.
Later he also succeded in cloning grown frogs.
http://www.nobelprize.org/
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_pluripotent_stem_cell