History of Human
Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Human blastocyst
      • In 1998, James Thomson (University of Wisconsin-Madison) isolated cells from the inner cell mass of the early embryo, and developed the first human embryonic stem cell lines.
      • In 1998, John Gearhart (Johns Hopkins University) derived human embryonic germ cells from cells in fetal gonadal tissue (primordial germ cells).
      • Pluripotent stem cell “lines” were developed from both sources
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Human embryonic stem cells were first isolated in 1998. The cells from these embryos were established as immortal pluripotent cell lines that are still in existence today.

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