Stockholm: British researcher John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan have won this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology.
The prize committee at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute said Monday that the two researchers won the award “for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent.”
Shinya Yamanaka. Reuters.
The committee says the discovery have “revolutionized our understanding of how cells and organisms develop.”
The medicine award was the first Nobel Prize to be announced this year. The physics award will be announced Tuesday, followed by chemistry on Wednesday, literature on Thursday and the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
The economics prize, which was not among the original awards, but was established by the Swedish central bank in 1968, will be announced on 15 October.
AP
