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James Thomson
Caption: Developmental biologist and professor of anatomy James Thomson takes a break from working on a laptop computer in his office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Thomson directed the research group that reported the first isolation of embryonic stem cell lines from a nonhuman primate in 1995, work that led his group to the first successful isolation of human embryonic stem cell lines in 1998. In 2007, Thomson and his colleagues, and a group in Japan, successfully reprogrammed adult skin cells to create the world's first induced pluripotent stem cells, cells that have all the qualities of embryonic stem cells.
Date: 2005
Photo credit: Jeff Miller/University of Wisconsin-Madison
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