Yamanaka wins Nobel Medicine Prize

Yamanaka wins Nobel Medicine Prize

KYOTO, Japan - Kyoto University professor Shinya Yamanaka holds a press conference in Kyoto on Oct. 8, 2012, after the Nobel Assembly at Sweden's Karolinska Institute said earlier that day that Yamanaka and John Gurdon of Britain had jointly won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work that led to development of a multipurpose stem cell that has the potential to grow into any type of body tissue.

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