Yamanaka wins Nobel Medicine Prize

Yamanaka wins Nobel Medicine Prize

KYOTO, Japan - Kyoto University professor Shinya Yamanaka receives a call from Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda at a press conference in Kyoto on Oct. 8, 2012. Yamanaka and John Gurdon of Britain 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, the Nobel Assembly at Sweden's Karolinska Institute said earlier that day.

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