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Two stem-cell researchers have won this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their groundbreaking work in cellular reprogramming, a technique that unleashed a wave of advances in biology, from cloning to the possible treatment of diseases using a patient's own cells. 两位干细胞研究者因其在细胞重新编程方面的开创型工作，获得了今年诺贝尔生理或医学奖。细胞重新编程技术引发了一轮生物学进步浪潮，其中包括克隆以及有可能使用病人自身细胞来治愈疾病。 Experiments by John B. Gurdon of the United Kingdom and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan showed that mature cells taken from the body could be changed to an embryonic-like state in a laboratory dish, a head-spinning discovery that is the biological equivalent of turning back time. 英国人格登(John B. Gurdon)和日本人山中伸弥(Shinya Yamanaka)的试验表明，取自人体的成熟细胞可在实验室培养皿中转变为类似胚胎状态的细胞。这是一项令人震惊的发现，在生物学上相当于将时光倒转。 Their work 'has changed the accepted dogma' that mature cells are condemned to exist in a specialized state, said Martin Evans, a British stem-cell pioneer who shared the 2007 Nobel Prize for medicine, in an interview. 英国干细胞研究先驱、曾于2007年分享诺贝尔医学奖的埃文斯(Martin Evans)在接受采访时说，他们的工作改变了人们认为的成熟细胞只能存活于特定状态下的固有看法。 | 
