S. I. Romanyuk, S. V. Komisarenko

Palladin Institute of Biochemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv;
e-mail: sir@biochem.kiev.ua; svk@biochem.kiev.ua

The article presents the information about scientific activity of John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka, the Nobel Prize laureats for Physiology or Medicine in  2012 for the discovery that fully differentiated cells can be reprogrammed into pluripotent cells; and also  Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka, the Nobel Prize laureats for Chemistry in 2012 for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors.