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Stem cell biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2012
Japan · b. 1962
Science and medicine
Physician and stem cell biologist, director of the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application at Kyoto University. Trained as an orthopaedic surgeon before turning to basic research, and shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with John Gurdon for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent.
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Well actually I was at home. I was doing some housework. So I was very surprised.
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