Gurdon wins Nobel Medicine Prize

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows John Gurdon of the Gurdon Institute at Cambridge University. Gurdon of Britain and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan have jointly won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for development of a multipurpose stem cell that has the potential to grow into any type of body tissue, the Nobel Assembly at Sweden's Karolinska Institute said on Oct. 8, 2012.

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