Symposium on iPS held in Kyoto

Symposium on iPS held in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - Shinya Yamanaka, a professor at Kyoto University's Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, gives a lecture at a symposium on induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, which have the potential to grow into various kinds of body cells, at a hotel in Kyoto on Dec. 25. Yamanaka is the world's first scientist to have created iPS cells.

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