Yamanaka's work in stem cell biology harks back to the 1998 isolation of human embryonic stem cells by University of Wisconsin stem cell biologist James Thomson. The technical feat followed that of British Nobelist Martin Evans, who, in the early 1980s, devised a way to grow entire mice from mouse embryonic stem cells. More @Wikipedia
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