This year’s Nobel of medicine went to to Shinya Yamanaka from Japan and Sir John B Gordon from Britain for their work on adult stem cells.
Sir Gordon proved adult mature cells can be made into immature cells in 1962. In a simple experiment,t he removed the nucleus of a mature frog cell and inoculated into an immature egg which was able to develop into a complete tadpole.
Dr. Yamanka, 40 years later, was able to insert few genes into mature cells and make them into a pluripotent stem cell which is able to develop into any type of specialized adult cell.
To read more about the 2 laureates, their work and their institutions please visit,
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2012/press.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/oct/08/nobel-prize-2012-live-medicine-physiology?newsfeed=true
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/britains-sir-john-gurdon-wins-nobel-prize-in-medicine-for-his-pioneering-work-in-cloning-and-stem-cells-8202243.html
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20121009a1.html
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