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...joined the staff of the state attorney general's office. When Warren Rudman became attorney general two years later he tapped Souter as his chief aide, and when Rudman moved on to the U.S. Senate in 1976 he persuaded New Hampshire's ultra-conservative Gov. Meldrim Thomson to replace him with Souter...
...sigh of relief in labs across the country was almost audible. In Boston, Douglas Melton, co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, gathered his entire staff to listen to Obama's announcement and served cake in celebration. James Thomson, the University of Wisconsin scientist responsible for isolating the first human embryonic stem cells in 1998, flew to Washington at Obama's request to watch the signing in person. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...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...
...Yamanaka and Thomson separately create the first human iPS cells...