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A decade of stem‐cell research
Author(s) -
John D. Gearhart
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.1038/embor.2008.235
Subject(s) - stem cell , biology , computational biology , evolutionary biology , microbiology and biotechnology
EMBO reports (ER): It is now a decade since you and James Thomson, at the University of Madison–Wisconsin, both published your papers on the derivation of human stem cells from primordial germ cells and blastocysts, respectively (Shamblott et al, 1998; Thomson et al, 1998). There was, and still is, a great deal of hope that these cells will lead to cures for various severe diseases but, ten years later, how far are we in terms of practical therapies and applications?