Japan's Yamanaka receives Israel's Wolf Prize

JERUSALEM, Israel - Shinya Yamanaka (L), a professor at Kyoto University known for developing the multipurpose iPS cell, and Rudolf Jaenisch, a German researcher of the technology and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pose in Jerusalem on May 29, 2011, as they won the 2011 Wolf Prize for medicine.

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