The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

摘要

In October 2012, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to two luminaries in the field of reprogramming, Sir John Gurdon of the United Kingdom and Dr. Shinya Yamanaka of Japan. This milestone celebrates a half-century-long paradigm shift in our understanding of the permanence of cell fate decisions in biology and has important implications for many fields of biomedical research, including research focused on lung injury, repair, and regeneration.