A SCIENTIST from Farnham has been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine, 50 years after publishing his ground-breaking research on stem cells.

Sir John Gurdon, born in Dippenhall in 1933, and who attended Edgeborough School, shared the award with Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells, which can transform into any type of cell in the body.

The Nobel Prize committee said Sir John, who used a gut sample to clone frogs and also has a research facility at the University of Cambridge named after him, had "revolutionised" science through his research.

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