Developmental biologist Sir John Bertrand Gurdon, co-winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and a former Caltech postdoctoral researcher, passed away October 7, 2025, at the age of 92. Gurdon was awarded the Nobel Prize for his pioneering research in nuclear transfer, showing that mature cells can be reprogrammed to serve as stem cells. That is, he found that even after cells have become differentiated to perform specialized tasks in the body, they still contain all the DNA

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