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Japan Times
| 8 months ago
A team of researchers has transplanted artificial cardiac muscle cells developed from multipurpose stem cells into six patients in the United States in the world's first clinical application of iPS cells, one of the researchers said Wednesday. Shinya...
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Japan Times
| 8 months ago
Now researchers in Japan are seeking to use his pioneering technology for an even greater prize: restoring sight. Scientists at the Riken Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe plan to use induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells in a human trial using...
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China Post
| 8 months ago
Japan's Nobel prize-winning Shinya Yamanaka will likely get up to 30 billion yen (US$383 million) for his stem cell research over the next decade, an official said Wednesday. The Japanese science and technology ministry eyes at least 2.7 billion yen...
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The Globe & Mail
| 8 months ago
In this April, 2008 photo, Kyoto University Professor Shinya Yamanaka, left, and British researcher John Gurdon exchange words as they attend a symposium on induced pluripotent stem cell in Tokyo...AP video About half of all medications act on these...
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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2012 was awarded jointly to American scientists Robert J...The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2012 was awarded jointly to American scientists Robert J...Kobilka for "for studies of G-proteincoupled receptors" that shed...
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The Sacramento Bee
| 8 months ago
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will announce the winners of the 2012 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday, capping this year's science awards before the Nobel spotlight moves to literature and peace. Like the other science awards, the...
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Contra Costa Times
| 8 months ago
Krieger Mercury News Researchers John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka on Monday shared a Nobel prize for their research in reprograming cells. Many scientists built on Gurdon's work in the pursuit of curing diseases and perhaps one day generating...
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Washington Post
| 8 months ago
The annual Nobel prizes are announced this week, and so far the winners have been a grab-bag of nationalities, ages and types of innovation. British researcher John Gurdon shared the prize for medicine Monday with Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka,...
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Japan Times
| 8 months ago
Research in reprogrammed cells, which on Monday earned the 2012 Nobel Prize in medicine, has been hailed as a new dawn for regenerative medicine but remains troubled by several clouds. Kyoto University's Shinya Yamanaka and Britain's John Gurdon were...
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Japan Times
| 8 months ago
Kyoto University professor Shinya Yamanaka, a winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, is calling for the creation of a "bank" to hold induced pluripotent stem cells that can be drawn on to treat diseases. In an interview Monday,...
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Japan Times
| 8 months ago
Shinya Yamanaka, a winner of this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his work on artificially derived multipurpose stem cells, on Tuesday expressed his gratitude to assistants in his laboratory and family members. The 50-year-old Kyoto...
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Associated Press
| 8 months ago
That doesn't appear to be the case for one teacher who called a future Nobel Prize winner's dreams of becoming a scientist "quite ridiculous" in a scathing report card. John Gurdon's future success was almost nipped in the bud in 1949 when a...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Did teachers write you as bad a school report as this Nobel prizewinner? Tell us if you, like John Gurdon, still remember what teachers said about you and what effect their words had on your life Open thread British developmental biologist Sir John...
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NeuroLogica
| 8 months ago
Oct 09 2012 This year's Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to two researchers whose work was separated by 44 years both involving the discovery that mature cells could be reprogrammed to become pluripotent cells capable of differentiating into every type...
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Fox News
| 8 months ago
Reuters Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka warned patients on Tuesday about unproven "stem cell therapies" offered at clinics and hospitals in a growing number of countries, saying they were highly risky. The Internet is full of advertisements touting...
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News 24
| 8 months ago
Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the US won the Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday for work in quantum physics that could one day open the way to supercomputers. The pair were honoured for pioneering experimental experiments in "measuring...
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The Globe & Mail
| 8 months ago
In this April, 2008 photo, Kyoto University Professor Shinya Yamanaka, left, and British researcher John Gurdon exchange words as they attend a symposium on induced pluripotent stem cell in Tokyo...AP video Physicist and best-selling author Stephen...
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National Public Radio
| 8 months ago
According to the Nobel committee, the inscription reads: " ' Inventas vitam juvat excoluisse per artes' loosely translated 'And they who bettered life on earth by their newly found mastery.' " Their work, the Nobel committee says, has laid the...
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Arizona Republic
| 8 months ago
Frenchman Serge Haroche and American David Wineland have won the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics for inventing and developing methods for observing tiny quantum particles without destroying them. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited the two...
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BDNews24
| 8 months ago
London, Oct 9 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) The Nobel Prize-winning discovery of how to reprogramme ordinary cells to behave like embryonic stem cells offers a way to skirt around ethical problems with human embryos, but safety concerns make their future...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
As a struggling 15-year-old, he was told by a teacher that even to think about a career as a scientist would be "a sheer waste of time". He came last out of 250 boys in his year for biology and was in the bottom set for every other science subject.
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
A secretive award committee in Stockholm is about to announce the winner of this year's Nobel Prize in physics. Only two women have won the prize since it was first awarded in 1901: Marie Curie in 1903 and Maria Goeppert-Mayer in 1963...The physics...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
Sir John Gurdon and Dr. Shinya Yamanaka were honored Monday for "the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed" to return to a very early state of development, the Nobel committee said in its citation. Their research is still years away from...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 8 months ago
Yesterday, British scientist Sir John Gurdon, 'the godfather of cloning' proved his teacher wrong in the most spectacular fashion by winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine. Sir John, 79, was honoured for the groundbreaking discovery that all body cells...
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Left Brain Right Brain
| 8 months ago
The Thinking Person's Guide to Autism has published a five point list of principles they feel organizations that support autistic people must adhere to. Position on Autism Organizations That Support Autistic People. I was going to copy them here, but...
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Kuwait Times
| 8 months ago
Shinya Yamanaka of Japan and John Gurdon of Britain won the Nobel Prize yesterday for work in cell programming, a frontier that has raised dreams of replacement tissue for people crippled by disease. The two scientists found that adult cells can be...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 8 months ago
Font Resize National editor's pick of the top news stories in the nation and world at this hour: Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney attempted to portray President Barack Obama as a weak leader on the world stage as he argued Monday for more...
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Asian Tribune
| 8 months ago
48 editor The Nobel Prize committee recognized two scientists who discovered that mature, specialized cells can be reprogrammed to become immature cells capable of developing into all tissues of the body. Their findings have revolutionised our...
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The Independent
| 8 months ago
A British scientist who was told as a 15-year-old schoolboy that a career in science was ridiculous has won this year's Nobel prize in medicine for his pioneering work in cloning and stem cells published in 1962. Sir John Gurdon, 79, of Cambridge...
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io9
| 8 months ago
Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Awarded to Revolutionary Stem Cell Researchers In 1962, Cambridge biologist John Gurdon proved the impossible possible by demonstrating that a fully developed cell, taken from the intestine an adult frog,...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for their research on resetting cells to their earliest developmental stages. The work has yet to yield a clear breakthrough in medical treatment,...
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DAWN
| 8 months ago
British scientist John Gurdon, awarded the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday, admitted on Monday that he had done the bulk of the cell programming work for which he was honoured half a century ago. The 79-year-old, with a shock of swept-back greying...
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Seattle Times
| 8 months ago
President Obama supports taxpayer-funded embryonic stem-cell research...But the issue is certain to come up now that the 2012 Nobel Prize in medicine is going to two scientists for their groundbreaking discovery that cells in the body can be...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 8 months ago
In 1993, Japanese researcher Shinya Yamanaka was a young doctor who dreamed of becoming a research scientist -- but no one was returning his phone calls. The physician and recent PhD graduate of Japan's Osaka City University sought to give up a...
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National Public Radio
| 8 months ago
The two scientists who won this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine discovered that cells in our body have the remarkable ability to reinvent themselves. They found that every cell in the human body, from our skin and bones to our heart and...
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KQED
| 8 months ago
His method creates cells that are like embryonic stem cells, without using human embryos. These so-called induced pluripotent stem cells, or IPS cells, could one day lead to cures for a wide range of diseases, from Parkinson's to heart disease. And...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
His biology teacher described his ambitions to become a scientist as 'a sheer waste of time'. Photograph: Ho/AFP/Getty A British researcher whose schoolboy ambition to become a scientist was dismissed as "quite ridiculous" by his teacher has won a...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
Cloning and Stem Cell Discoveries Earn Nobel in Medicine Published: October 8, 2012 A pair of landmark discoveries made 40 years apart have earned the 2012 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for John B. Gurdon of the University of Cambridge in...
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Vanity Fair
| 8 months ago
Followed by, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, respectively: chemistry, literature, and peace...All of us, for having to say physics is tomorrow just once a year since graduating college. Stockholm has announced that the winners of today's award,...
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Sacramento Bee
| 8 months ago
In announcing the 8 million kronor ($1.2 million) award, the Nobel committee at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute said the discovery has "revolutionized our understanding of how cells and organisms develop."...That showed the DNA still had its ability...
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Arab News
| 8 months ago
Scientists from Britain and Japan shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday for the discovery that adult cells can be reprogrammer back into stem cells which can turn into any kind of tissue and may one day repair damaged organs. John Gurdon, 79,...
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Time of India
| 8 months ago
Stem cells are precursor cells which differentiate into the various organs of the body. They have stirred huge excitement, with hopes that they can be coaxed into growing into replacement tissue for victims of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
A British and a Japanese scientist won the Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday for work on creating stem cells, opening the door to new methods to diagnose and treat diseases. Briton John Gurdon and Japan's Shinya Yamanaka equally share the prize of 8...
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BBC
| 8 months ago
John Gurdon from the UK and Shinya Yamanaka from Japan were awarded the prize for transforming specialised cells into stem cells, which can become any other type of cell in the body. Prof Gurdon used a gut sample to clone frogs and Prof Yamanaka...
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DAWN
| 8 months ago
Shinya Yamanaka could have made bits of sewing machines for a living. Instead, his tinkering with the building blocks of life has made him a Nobel Prize winner. Born in 1962 in a Japan beginning a decades-long manufacturing boom, Yamanaka was the...
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CNN
| 8 months ago
Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for work that revolutionized the understanding of how cells and organisms develop. The Nobel Assembly's announcement at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm is the first for what will be a series of prizes announced this...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
British researcher John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan won this year's Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering that mature, specialized cells of the body can be reprogrammed into stem cells a discovery that scientists hope to turn into...
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Associated Press
| 8 months ago
Capecchi and Oliver Smithies of the United States and Martin J...Ignarro and Ferid Murad, United States, for the discovery of properties of nitric oxide, a common air pollutant but also a lifesaver because of its capacity to dilate blood vessels.
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The Observer
| 8 months ago
Call the main Guardian and Observer switchboard: +44 (0)20 3353 2000 Sort by: Latest first Oldest first Auto update: On Off Updates: Induced pluripotent stem cells Some background on induced pluripotent stem cells , a technical tour-de-force, which...
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Taiwan News
| 8 months ago
British researcher John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan have won this year's Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology. The prize committee at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute said Monday that the two researchers won the award "for the discovery that...
