Twenty years ago this fall, a team of scientists led by James Thomson at the University of Wisconsin-Madison published the first paper describing successful derivation of human embryonic stem cells.
Month: April 2018
20th anniversary of publication of “Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Blastocysts”
Nov. 6, 2018 will mark the 20th anniversary of publication of “Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Blastocysts.” The seminal paper, published in the journal Science, documented a breakthrough that occurred when researchers, led by James (Jamie) Thomson at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, developed a technique to isolate and grow human embryonic stem cells in cell culture.