日本的山中伸弥(Shinya Yamanaka)与英国的约翰.格登(John Gurdon) 获得2012年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。

 

高度分化的细胞是如何去分化成为多能细胞的

 

UK's JB Gurdon, Japan's Shinya Yamanaka

 

discovered that mature, specialised cells can be reprogrammed to become immature cells capable of developing into all tissues of the body. "Their findings have revolutionised our understanding of how cells and organisms develop,"

剑桥大学Gurdon研究所

John B Gurdon was born in 1933 in Dippenhall, UK. He received his Doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1960 and was a postdoctoral fellow at California Institute of Technology. He joined Cambridge University, UK, in 1972 and has served as Professor of Cell Biology and Master of Magdalene College. Gurdon is currently at the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge.

京都大学

Shinya Yamanaka was born in Osaka, Japan in 1962. He obtained his MD in 1987 at Kobe University and trained as an orthopaedic surgeon before switching to basic research. Yamanaka received his PhD at Osaka University in 1993, after which he worked at the Gladstone Institute in San Francisco and Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan. Yamanaka is currently Professor at Kyoto University and also affiliated with the Gladstone Institute.