Reversing cell differentiation
Gurdon showed a frog's intestinal cell nucleus could make a whole frog, so differentiation does not erase genes. Yamanaka found that four transcription factors turn skin cells into pluripotent stem cells. They shared the 2012 Nobel Prize.
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Closed 1962, John Gurdon (frog cloning); 2006, Shinya Yamanaka (four factors).
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