Shinya Yamanaka, cowinner of this year's Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology, says he is committed to using his expertise in deriving multipurpose stem cells to cure debilitating diseases.
In an annual lecture at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm ahead of the Nobel awards ceremony Monday, Yamanaka explained Friday how a series of unexpected discoveries led him to the successful generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells).
"I had two types of great teachers in my early days as a scientist," he said before explaining how the experiments they assigned yielded surprising results and yet he was still praised.