1998: James Thomson and the First Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines
On November 6, 1998, Science published a short paper that changed stem cell research: James A. Thomson and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin–Madison reported deriving and continuously culturing pluripotent cell lines from human blastocysts. The same month, John Gearhart’s team at Johns Hopkins reported related pluripotent cultures from primordial germ cells. Together, those results…
