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Reblogged from captain-nitrogen


And the first Nobel Prize of the year has been awarded! This year, the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology has been awarded to Sir John B Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for
“for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent”
So what does this mean?
All…
Pluripotency refers to a cell being capable of differentiating into any fate. Basically they discovered how to turn...