[Reader-list] This Years Nobel in Medicine

[A. Mani]

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British scientist John Gurdon and Japan’s Shinya Yamanaka were
announced as the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize for medicine today
and will share the prize of 8 million Swedish crowns. Cambridge
University’s John Gurdon won for showing that adult cells contain all
the genetic information necessary to create every tissue in the body.
That work set the stage for Shinya Yamanaka, who demonstrated that a
relatively simple process could convert adult cells into embryonic
stem cells.

That development is already opening new avenues of research, and it
holds the promise of new ways to repair tissues damaged by injury or
disease and also makes it possible for same-sex couples to conceive a
child together. According to the Nobel Assembly at Sweden’s Karolinska
Institute, Gurdon and Yamanaka have re-written the textbooks.

“These ground-breaking discoveries have completely changed our view of
the development and specialisation of cells. We now understand that
the mature cell does not have to be confined forever to its
specialised state. Textbooks have been rewritten and new research
fields have been established. By reprogramming human cells, scientists
have created new opportunities to study diseases and develop methods
for diagnosis and therapy,” a statement from the Nobel Assembly says.

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