Honorary doctors 2018 - A revolutionary stem cell researcher
(WorldNews Finland)

Professor Shinya Yamanaka`s ground-breaking work started a new era in medicine Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences Shinya Yamanaka`s revolutionary discovery was based on a great confidence in the idea. Two decades ago it was still thought that a cell is an embryonic stem cell at the beginning of the development of the human body and that the cells, which, while dividing and forming different tissues, permanently lose their stem cell properties. Reverting back to the highly multifaceted i.e. pluripotent stem cell status in the first cleavage of embryonic development was not considered possible. Yamanaka overturned that general belief and demonstrated how a mature cell can be converted back...