Yamanaka

To reprogram cells and turn them into iPS cells researchers insert four genes called Yamanaka factors (after Shinya Yamanaka who first did this successfully at Kyoto University in 2006).

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Toru Yamanaka/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images January 1995: A collapsed building blocked the main street of central Kobe after a 6.9-magnitude earthquake rocked western Japan, killing at least 5,502 people.

Disastrous Japan Earthquakes 2011

Carrasco's recommended alternatives were Ernest McCullock and James Till, the discoverers of stem cells; and Shinya Yamanaka, who in 2007 was the first scientist to produce induced pluripotent stem cells, which could one day result in stem-cell research that does not involve the destruction of human embryos.

Vatican Expresses 'Perplexity' Over Nobel Awarded To IVF Creator Clay Chiles 2010

Carrasco's recommended alternatives were Ernest McCullock and James Till, the discoverers of stem cells; and Shinya Yamanaka, who in 2007 was the first scientist to produce induced pluripotent stem cells, which could one day result in stem-cell research that does not involve the destruction of human embryos.

Vatican Expresses 'Perplexity' Over Nobel Awarded To IVF Creator Clay Chiles 2010

Carrasco's recommended alternatives were Ernest McCullock and James Till, the discoverers of stem cells; and Shinya Yamanaka, who in 2007 was the first scientist to produce induced pluripotent stem cells, which could one day result in stem-cell research that does not involve the destruction of human embryos.

Vatican Expresses 'Perplexity' Over Nobel Awarded To IVF Creator The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Some great scientists had endorsed the program: Paul Berg, winner of the Nobel Prize for his work with DNA; Shinya Yamanaka of Japan, inventor of Induced Pluripotent stem cells; Dalton Friedrich, who leads the world-renowned Miami Project to cure paralysis; Zach Hall, former director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke NINDS and more.

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Toru Yamanaka/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images College students shouted at the start of a job hunting ceremony in Tokyo on Wednesday.

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Carrasco's recommended alternatives were Ernest McCullock and James Till, the discoverers of stem cells; and Shinya Yamanaka, who in 2007 was the first scientist to produce induced pluripotent stem cells, which could one day result in stem-cell research that does not involve the destruction of human embryos.

Vatican Expresses 'Perplexity' Over Nobel Awarded To IVF Creator Clay Chiles 2010

Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images Two friends held hands during their reunion in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture, Monday.

Tearful Reunions After the Quake 2011

Carrasco's recommended alternatives were Ernest McCullock and James Till, the discoverers of stem cells; and Shinya Yamanaka, who in 2007 was the first scientist to produce induced pluripotent stem cells, which could one day result in stem-cell research that does not involve the destruction of human embryos.

Vatican Expresses 'Perplexity' Over Nobel Awarded To IVF Creator Clay Chiles 2010