Dr.Yamanaka of Kyoto Univ. was awarded to Nobel prize.

  As expected, Dr.Shinya Yamanaka was announced to be awarded to 2012 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine. The following is from the article on Asahi Shinbun:
  "Shinya Yamanaka, who developed induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which he shared with a British scientist, the Swedish Karolinska Institute announced Monday.
  Yamanaka, 50, won the prize for developing and establishing reprograming technology that can revert somatic cells to their undifferentiated, or embryonic, state.
  The British scientist, Sir John Gurdon, 79, is known for successfully cloning frogs in 1962."
  Dr.Yamanaka is the 19th Japanese Nobel laureate.