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Sir John Bertrand Gurdon FRS (born 2 October 1933) is a British developmental biologist, best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation [2] [3] [4] and cloning. [1] [5] [6] [7] Awarded the Lasker Award in 2009, in 2012, he and Shinya Yamanaka were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery ...
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John Gurdon (born October 2, 1933, Dippenhall, Hampshire, England) British developmental biologist who was the first to demonstrate that egg cells are able to reprogram differentiated (mature) cell nuclei, reverting them to a pluripotent state, in which they regain the capacity to become any type of cell.
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Jan 1, 2017 · Professor Sir John Gurdon Kt DPhil DSc FRS. Distinguished Group Leader, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2012, Member of the University Department of Zoology. Educated at Eton College, where he did Classics, having been advised that he was unsuited for science, and Christ Church, Oxford (Zoology). PhD with Michael Fischberg, on nuclear ...
Feb 15, 2022 · When John Gurdon was 15, his biology teacher pronounced him “unsuited” for the study of science, and he received no further instruction in the subject until after graduation, when he crammed biology to win admission to the Department of Zoology at Oxford. As a young Ph.D. candidate, his experiments transferring nuclei from the cells of tadpoles to those of fertilized frog embryos ...
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Oct 8, 2012 · University Science. Sir John B Gurdon has won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012 for his discovery at the University of Oxford that the specialisation of cells is reversible, challenging the dogma that mature cells are irreversibly committed to their fate. He wins the award jointly with Shinya Yamanaka for the discovery that mature ...
John B. Gurdon challenged the dogma that the specialised cell is irreversibly committed to its fate. He hypothesised that its genome might still contain all the information needed to drive its development into all the different cell types of an organism. In 1962, he tested this hypothesis by replacing the cell nucleus of
Oct 13, 2012 · It was 8:30am when Professor Sir John Gurdon took the call from the Nobel Assembly, and he was already in the lab. 50 years since the ground-breaking stem cell work that led to this week’s announcement of his Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and Sir John’s passion for scientific research remains unwavering.
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