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Nobel prize for Peace on Friday
October 09, 2012
Yesterday,
British researcher John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan won
the 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
mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent."
The
committee said the discovery have "revolutionized our understanding of
how cells and organisms develop." The medicine award was the first Nobel
Prize to be announced this year.
The chemistry award will be announced on Wednesday, literature on Thursday and
the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday
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