俞君英 (Yú Jūnyīng) · Junying Yu (Chinese-American stem cell…

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1 Junying Yu (Chinese-American stem cell biologist)

About Junying Yu

Chinese-American stem cell biologist, first author of the 2007 paper from James Thomson's lab in Wisconsin that turned human skin cells into induced pluripotent stem cells, alongside Shinya Yamanaka's team.

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HSK 6

俞君英是干细胞研究领域的知名科学家。

Yú Jūnyīng shì gànxìbāo yánjiū lǐngyù de zhīmíng kēxuéjiā.

Junying Yu is a renowned scientist in the field of stem cell research.

HSK 7-9

俞君英参与了人类诱导多能干细胞的突破性研究。

Yú Jūnyīng cānyù le rénlèi yòudǎo duōnéng gànxìbāo de tūpòxìng yánjiū.

Junying Yu took part in the breakthrough research on human induced pluripotent stem cells.

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The key word of her field is 干细胞, 'stem cell', with 干 read as in 树干, 'tree trunk', not gān 'dry'. Her paper in Science came out the same day as Shinya Yamanaka's in Cell, but only Yamanaka went on to share the 2012 Nobel Prize.