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Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Loading Medicine Nobel Prize
Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Medicine · 2012
Shinya Yamanaka received the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent. The contribution became an important reference point for later work in the field. This achievement represents one of the major advances recognized in medicine at the time.