There's lots of excitement when UK John Gurdon of Gurdon Institute in Cambridge & Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University won the Nobel prize in Medicine recently!!! They share the US $1.2 million .
Their research........... They found that adult cells can be turned back into stem cells! which can turn into any kind of tissue & may one day repair damaged organs!!!!!!! The big hope is for stem cells to be able to be used to replaced damaged tissue in EVERYTHING from spinal cord injuries to Parkinsons.
In the past scientist once thought it was impossible to turn adult tissue back to stem cells & stem cells could only be created by harvesting embryos. Thanks to these 2 brilliant men, we know now that development is not strictly a one-way street. Can you imagine the possibilities now?????
Cool huh????
ReplyDeleteBy the way Nice blog.... a collection of the latest from our scientific world....
What's with the whitening jab? No wonder you look different these days!!!
Thanks!!!
DeleteFriends recommended this whitening jab. Like all scientific experiment, someone got to go try first, so I go lor! Now that it works, they can follow, haha!