Yamanaka wins Finnish technology award

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka, a Kyoto University professor, who is among two winners of the Millennium Technology Prize awarded by the Technology Academy Finland on April 19, 2012, for his discovery of a new method to produce induced pluripotent stem cells.

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