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...year later, Yamanaka followed up his work by reporting success with the same four factors in turning back the clock on human skin cells. At about the same time, in Wisconsin, Thomson achieved the same feat using a different cocktail of genes. With those studies, what became known as induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) were suddenly a reality. Never mind the frustratingly fickle process needed to create embryonic stem cells; this was something any molecular-biology graduate student could do. "We figured somebody would have success with reprogramming. We just thought that somebody would come along a generation from...
...James Thomson, U of Wisconsin, isolates human embryonic stem cells...
...President Bush restricts federal funding for research on human embryonic stem cells...
...Yamanaka and Thomson separately create the first human iPS cells...
...September Konrad Hochedlinger at Harvard creates iPS cells in mice using the common-cold virus rather than retrovirus vectors - an important step in making the technology safer for human...