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Nobel laureate Yamanaka

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese medical researcher Shinya Yamanaka meets the press after delivering a Nobel lecture at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on Dec. 7, 2012. Yamanaka and John Gurdon of Britain were jointly awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to develop into other cell types.

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Nobel laureate Yamanaka

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese medical researcher Shinya Yamanaka delivers a Nobel lecture at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on Dec. 7, 2012. Yamanaka and John Gurdon of Britain were jointly awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to develop into other cell types. (Pool photo)

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Nobel laureate Yamanaka

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese medical researcher Shinya Yamanaka delivers a Nobel lecture at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on Dec. 7, 2012. Yamanaka and John Gurdon of Britain were jointly awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to develop into other cell types. (Pool photo)

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Nobel laureate in Stockholm

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese medical researcher Shinya Yamanaka smiles before delivering a Nobel lecture at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on Dec. 7, 2012. Yamanaka and John Gurdon of Britain were jointly awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to develop into other cell types. (Pool photo)

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Nobel laureate in Stockholm

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese medical researcher Shinya Yamanaka arrives at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on Dec. 7, 2012, to deliver a Nobel lecture. Yamanaka and John Gurdon of Britain were jointly awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to develop into other cell types.

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Nobel laureate in Stockholm

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese medical researcher Shinya Yamanaka arrives at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on Dec. 7, 2012, to deliver a Nobel lecture. Yamanaka and John Gurdon of Britain were jointly awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to develop into other cell types.

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Nobel laureates Yamanaka, Gurdon

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Shinya Yamanaka (L), a professor at Kyoto University in Japan, shakes hands with British researcher John Gurdon at a press conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on Dec. 6, 2012. They will attend an award ceremony Dec. 10 in Stockholm to be jointly awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to develop into other cell types.

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Nobel laureate Yamanaka in Stockholm

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Shinya Yamanaka, a professor at Kyoto University, speaks during a press conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on Dec. 6, 2012. Yamanaka and John Gurdon of Britain will attend an award ceremony in Stockholm to be jointly awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to develop into other cell types.

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Nobel laureate Yamanaka in Stockholm

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Shinya Yamanaka, a professor at Kyoto University, speaks during a press conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on Dec. 6, 2012. Yamanaka and John Gurdon of Britain will attend an award ceremony in Stockholm to be jointly awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to develop into other cell types.

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Nobel laureate Yamanaka in Stockholm

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Shinya Yamanaka (L), a professor at Kyoto University, speaks during a press conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on Dec. 6, 2012. Yamanaka and John Gurdon (R) of Britain will attend an award ceremony in Stockholm to be jointly awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to develop into other cell types.

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Nobel laureate Yamanaka in Stockholm

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Shinya Yamanaka (L), a professor at Kyoto University, speaks during a press conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on Dec. 6, 2012. Yamanaka and John Gurdon (R) of Britain will attend an award ceremony in Stockholm to be jointly awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to develop into other cell types.

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Karolinska Institute president

KYOTO, Japan - Karolinska Institute President Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson speaks in a press conference in Kyoto on Oct. 8, 2012. The Swedish medical university has a panel to select laureates for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Kyoto University professor Shinya Yamanaka and John Gurdon, professor emeritus at Cambridge University, were announced as winners of the prize the same day.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Yamanaka wins Nobel Medicine Prize

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Kyoto University professor Shinya Yamanaka. Yamanaka of Japan and John Gurdon of Britain 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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Nobel laureate Yamanaka in Stockholm

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Shinya Yamanaka, a professor at Kyoto University, speaks during a press conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on Dec. 6, 2012. Yamanaka and John Gurdon of Britain will attend an award ceremony in Stockholm to be jointly awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to develop into other cell types. (Kyodo)