John Vane vs John Gurdon

John Vane was a British pharmacologist who shared the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on hormone-like substances known as prostaglandins. He discovered that aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs work by inhibiting the synthesis of prostaglandins, thereby reducing pain, inflammation, and fever. His biochemical assays allowed him to measure the effect of...

John Gurdon (born 1933) is a British developmental biologist whose 1962 experiments at Oxford demonstrated that the nucleus of a differentiated intestinal cell from a tadpole could direct development of a complete cloned frog when transplanted into an enucleated egg. This showed that specialized cells retain a complete set of genetic instructions rather than losing unused genes. He shared the 2012...