VOX POPULI: There’s theory, and then there’s pulling off a long, healthy life
In his book “Why We Die: The Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality,” Venki Ramakrishnan, a winner of the 2009 Nobel ...
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Reversing aging: Are billionaires throwing cash at the wrong target?
In late 2021 a Russian-born billionaire named Yuri Milner gathered some of the most celebrated scientific minds of our time ...
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The ISSCR to celebrate 20th anniversary of iPSC Discovery in Kyoto, Japan
World-renowned stem cell scientists will gather in Kyoto, Japan for the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) ...
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Nobel prize winner Shinya Yamanaka to chair meeting celebrating landmark discovery (IMAGE)
The ISSCR International Symposium in Kyoto, Japan in October 2026 will highlight new research advances made possible through the discovery of iPSC technology.
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Scientists just used genes from a microorganism and created a mouse
Stem cell researcher Shinya Yamanaka, who actually made the discovery six years earlier, found that adult cells could be reprogrammed into stem cells by introducing four specific genes ...
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Cell Reprogramming Work Wins Nobel
More than 40 years later, Shinya Yamanaka discovered that four genes are capable of reprogramming an adult mouse cell into a cell in an embryonic stem cell-like state—called an induced pluripotent ...
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Genes of ancient animal relatives used to grow a mouse: Study reveals hidden history of stem cells
The 2012 Nobel prize to Shinya Yamanaka demonstrated that it is possible to obtain stem cells from "differentiated" cells just by expressing four factors, including a Sox (Sox2) and a POU (Oct4 ...
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422-million-year-old ancient animal cell helps scientists create a mouse
The 2012 Nobel Prize-winning work by Shinya Yamanaka demonstrated that reprogramming differentiated cells into stem cells required four factors, including Sox2 and Oct4 (a POU gene). Building on ...