Joe Rogan Experience #2537 - David Sinclair · Aired Aug 7, 2026
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Shinya Yamanaka won the Nobel Prize in 2006 for discovering four genes that convert adult cells into stem cells.
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Shinya Yamanaka won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2012, not 2006, for showing that mature cells can be reprogrammed into pluripotent stem cells. He did first report making mouse iPS cells in 2006, but the prize itself came six years later.
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Is it true that Shinya Yamanaka won the Nobel Prize in 2006 for discovering four genes that convert adult cells into stem cells?
No, not as stated. Shinya Yamanaka won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2012, not 2006, for showing that mature cells can be reprogrammed into pluripotent stem cells. He did first report making mouse iPS cells in 2006, but the prize itself came six years later. David Sinclair said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2537 - David Sinclair, aired Aug 7, 2026, at 12:15. The supporting source is nobelprize.org, linked below.
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