Latest Headlines About Shinya Yamanaka's Prize-Winning Research
Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes and a UCSF professor of anatomy, is making headlines across the world as winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of how to transform ordinary adult skin cells into cells that, like embryonic stem cells, are capable of developing into any cell in the human body.
Yamanaka shares the prize with John B. Gurdon of the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge, England. Here is a sampling of the media coverage so far:
2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine
- Yamanaka’s Nobel Prize Highlights Value of Training and Collaboration
- UCSF and Gladstone Celebrate Shinya Yamanaka’s Nobel Prize in Medicine
- Shinya Yamanaka Wins 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine
- Milestones in Stem Cell Science
- Stem Cell Science Q&A
- Shinya Yamanaka's Road to the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine
- UCSF Nobel Prize Winners
- Gladstone Institutes
U.S. Media
- UCSF Researcher Wins Nobel Award
SF Chronicle, October 8, 2012 - Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to Sir John Gurdon, Shinya Yamanaka
CNN, October 8, 2012 - Good eggs
The Economist, October 8, 2012 - Nobel Winners Unlocked Cells' Unlimited Potential
NPR, October 8, 2012 - Scientists Win Nobel Prize for Stem-Cell Work
Wall Street Journal, October 8, 2012 - Cloning and Stem Cell Discoveries Earn Nobel in Medicine
New York Times, October 8, 2012 - Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded to Gurdon, Yamanaka for Stem Cell Discoveries
The Washington Post, October 8, 2012 - Stem-Cell Pioneers Gurdon, Yamanaka Win Nobel Prize
Bloomberg Businessweek, October 8, 2012
