10-06-08
Scientists from the Australian Stem Cell Centre (ASCC) will be
the first in Australia to gain access to human induced pluripotent stem
(iPS) cells, one of the latest and most significant developments in
stem cell research.
The iPS cells have been imported under an
agreement with Professor James Thomson from the University of
Wisconsin, United States of America who has developed the human iPS
cell lines and was, at the same time as Professor Shinya Yamanaka from
Japan, the first to describe human iPS cells in November 2007.
Professor Thomson was also the first scientist to identify and describe
human embryonic stem cells in the scientific press in 1998 and has been
a leader in the field of embryonic stem cell research since.
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