Medical:Nobel Gurdon and Yamanaka

Can a cell to become a man? Can a multicellular organism become an embryo? Both of these experiments, which was described as a masterpiece of medicine, who defeated logical currents obsolete, unless conservative biology, successfully completed although an interval of 40 years from each other.

The first experiment, it's development and transformation of a cell in an entire multicellular organism finished merit of British scientist John Gurdon, now 79 years old, while the second experiment is the merit of Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka, 50.

In addition to the study of the cell, the two scientists joined the triumph in the Nobel Prize for Medicine. Gordon regarded as the father of the cloning process so strongly criticized the lack of ethics, especially electricity Bioethics scholars and religious clergy.

The former is caused disappointment to the two groups mentioned above, Japanese scientist Yamanaka calmed somewhat, revealing technique that allows obtaining stem cells without having to touch.

Gurdon in 1962 took a major cell of a frog, isolated and placed it inside the nucleus of what he called the egg-cells, as the latter had removed the nucleus. At the end of the process gave birth to a new frog, with full health. Old cell nucleus of a frog, was able to lead the egg cell to its conversion into a new frog.

Today, 40 years later, the Academy of Sciences of Stockholm decided to acknowledge the work of the British scientist, the "cursed" in all these years, while Japan's Yamanaka was evaluated for detection of the opposite technique of Gurdon experiment, ie by a adult cell, obtaining an embryo.

Common Nobel prizes in Medicine: both managed to resist the flow of life, "scheduled" an animal from an embryo and vice versa, one from a living embryo.