Pluripotent stem cells - Methods and protocols

Abstract

The 2012 Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded conjunctely to Sir John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent as during the syxties John Gurdon challenged the dogma that the specialised cell is irreversibly committed to its fate and just few years ago Shinya Yamanaka was the first to induce mature cells to reverse their development and turn back into induced pluripotent stem cells....