Shinya Yamanaka on stem cells, longevity, and the ethics of pushing biology’s limits. Nobel Prize winner Shinya Yamanaka joins bioethicist Insoo Hyun to discuss stem cells, longevity, and ethics. They ...

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded this morning to a British and a Japanese researcher who discovered that mature and specialized cells "can be reprogrammed to become immature cells ...

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 ...

(AP) British researcher John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan won this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering that mature, specialized cells of the body can be reprogrammed into ...

A Nobel Prize within reach, Shinya Yamanaka says his work is far from over. Yamanaka, whose transformation of skin cells into embryonic-like stem cells could sidestep a minefield of ethical and ...

STOCKHOLM - A Japanese researcher who discovered how to make stem cells from ordinary skin cells and avoid the ethical quandaries of making them from human eggs could be a candidate for the medicine ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka warned patients on Tuesday about unproven "stem cell therapies" offered at clinics and hospitals in a growing number of countries, saying they were ...