Two scientists who showed that a cell’s fate is reversible have won the
2012 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. The Nobel committee
announced October 8 that John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka are being
honored for showing that cells once thought to be locked into a
specific identity could remember and revert to the supremely flexible
state they have in an early embryo.
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