# Shinya Yamanaka (@shinya-yamanaka)

Shinya Yamanaka was a Japanese physician-scientist. Yamanaka's team found that a small set of transcription factors could reprogram mature mouse cells to a pluripotent state, then extended the method to human cells.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Shinya Yamanaka's public record._

## Topics

- [Clinical Translation](/@shinya-yamanaka/clinical-translation.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells](/@shinya-yamanaka/induced-pluripotent-stem-cells.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Reprogramming Identity](/@shinya-yamanaka/reprogramming-identity.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2012/yamanaka/facts/
- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2012/advanced-information/
- blog: https://www.cira.kyoto-u.ac.jp/e/about/director.html

## Ask this twin

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```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "shinya-yamanaka", "question": "…"}`.