2012 Nobel Prize Media Coverage
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:
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