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Science 21 January 2005:
Vol. 307. no. 5708, p. 351
DOI: 10.1126/science.307.5708.351a
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Figure 1 Japan Prizes. Masatoshi Takeichi, director of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, and Erkki Ruoslahti of the Burnham Institute in La Jolla, California, will split this year's Japan Prize for cell bio-logy. Makoto Nagao, president of Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology in Tokyo, will receive the Information and Media Technology prize.

Takeichi (left inset) and Ruoslahti (right inset) made fundamental contributions toward elucidating the molecular mechanisms of cell adhesion, which could lead to new therapies for treating malignant tumors. Nagao (center left) is honored for his contributions to natural language processing, which paved the way for advances in machine translation of languages. Each prize is worth $475,000, an amount Takeichi and Ruoslahti will share.

CREDIT: TOP INSET, THE BURNHAM INST.; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION OF JAPAN




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