Topic: Shinya Yamanaka
Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka was Friday honoured with a Spanish award worth 400,000 euros ($544,000) for his pioneering work on cell reprogramming.Yamanaka won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biomedicine, the foundation announced.The former orthopedic surgeon ...
Five researchers will take home the 2009 Lasker Awards for basic and clinical medical research. John Gurdon of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University in Japan will receive the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research ...
Two papers published this week appear to bring closer the day when embryonic-like stem cells can be used to treat human diseases. The other reports success in using the cells to begin correcting a rare genetic disorder known as Fanconi anemia.. In ...
Scientists this week reported major advances toward a central goal of stem cell research: The advances, reported in two papers in tomorrow's issue of Nature and in another paper in the July issue of Cell Stem Cell, extend a finding made ...
"Where is it" ? At very nearly the same time, the separate teams headed by James Thomson in Wisconsin and Shinya Yamanaka in Kyoto have arrived by similar pathways at the new source of human stem cells. It should be noted that the ...
A Harvard researcher has developed a way to make pluripotent stem cells that solves several of the major impediments to using them to treat human diseases.. Derrick Rossi, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, created pluripotent stem cells--which can turn into ...
The Shaw Prize is an international award that has been granted on an annual basis since 2004. -P. James E. Peebles, for numerous contributions to cosmology, including contributions to big bang necleosynthesis, dark matter, and dark energy. -Michel Mayor and Geoffrey Marcy ...
Two favorites for a Nobel Prize this year have picked up the 2010 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award-the so-called "American Nobel"-an honor that often precedes the winning of an actual Nobel. Douglas Coleman, of Jackson Laboratory, and Jeffrey Friedman, of ...
The hot streak of stem cell researcher Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University in Japan and the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease in San Francisco, California, continues. The Kyoto Prize for lifetime achievement in basic sciences goes to L?szl? Lov?sz of ...
Shinya Yamanaka, a stem cell scientist at the Gladstone Institute, in San Francisco, and Kyoto University, in Japan, first created iPS cells in 2007 by adding just four genes to adult cells that are normally active only in embryos. Yamanaka's team ...
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Induction of Pluripotency by Defined Factors
Air date: Thursday, January 14, 2010, 3:00:00 PM ...2010-11-15 -
Lasker Lecture: Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, 2 ...
www.einstein.yu.edu - Shinya Yamanaka, MD, Ph.D., delivers ...2011-12-06 -
Advances in Stem Cell Research: Shinya ...
Interviews with Deepak Srivastava, Shinya Yamanaka and Robert Mahley on ...2009-09-11
