The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka, for their work on reprogramming mature cells.
Gurdon received the prize for discovering in 1962 that the specialisation of mature frog cells could be reversed.
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