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The Egg and the Nucleus: A Battle for Supremacy (Nobel Lecture)
Author(s) -
Gurdon John B.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201306722
Subject(s) - battle , somatic cell , nucleus , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , physiology , art , history , genetics , ancient history , gene
Common somatic cells can be deprogrammed to stem cells, which can grow into all types of tissues. The early phase of this research, which led to the Nobel Prize in 2013, is described first hand by J. B. Gurden in his Nobel Review.