-
They are now trying to establish the steps involved in the cells changing from pancreas to liver cells.
BBC: Cell discovery may aid liver transplants
-
On Monday, the 2012 prize for medicine or physiology was awarded to John Gurdon from the UK and Shinya Yamanaka from Japan for changing adult cells into stem cells, which can become any other type of cell in the body.
BBC: Serge Haroche and David Wineland
-
On Monday, the 2012 prize for medicine or physiology was awarded to John Gurdon from the UK and Shinya Yamanaka from Japan for changing adult cells into stem cells, and on Tuesday the prize for physics was awarded to Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the US for their work in querying single light and matter particles.
BBC: Chemistry Nobel goes to Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka