Stem cell 'pioneer' sues Nobel assembly in California court

In the first lawsuit of its kind, a man is suing the entity that awards the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine over claims it made about this year's joint winners, Shinya Yamanaka and Britain's John Gurdon, arguing he was the first to create regenerative medicine via stem cells, a spokeswoman announced.

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