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What Gurdon and Yamanaka’s Nobel Prize means to the stem cell community

It took 50 years for the Nobel committee to acknowledge one of the key developments in biology. A nucleus from a tadpole?s somatic cell transferred into a frog?s egg resulted in development of a normal tadpole (1); this was the first clone ever made in a laboratory, way back in 1962, and Professor Sir John Gurdon was the visionary scientist behind it.