Shinya Yamanaka: The Worst Surgeonชินยะ ยามานากะ: ศัลยแพทย์ที่แย่ที่สุด

Young Shinya Yamanaka dreamed of healing people.

He wanted to become an orthopedic surgeon, fixing broken bones and injuries.

With great ambition, he entered medical school in Kobe.

He had a clear plan for his future as a healer.

Unfortunately, Shinya was a very clumsy surgeon.

Operations that should have taken thirty minutes often took him two hours.

'Jamanaka,' meaning 'obstacle'.

He felt discouraged and like a complete failure in the operating room.

Instead of giving up entirely, Shinya decided to switch to research.

He moved to the Gladstone Institute in San Francisco to pursue this new path.

However, his early experiments failed one after another, causing him to become depressed.

The change of direction did not immediately bring success.

Returning to Japan, Shinya began studying stem cells.

He asked a question that many scientists considered impossible to answer.

Could you turn an ordinary adult cell back into a stem cell?

Almost everyone believed the answer was a definitive no.