" Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Blastocytes " ( 1998 ) , by James Thomson [ 1 ]

After becoming chief pathologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Wisconsin Regional Primate Center in 1995, James A. Thomson [5] began his pioneering work in deriving embryonic stem cells [6] from isolated embryos. That same year, Thomson [5] published his first paper, “Isolation of a Primate Embryonic Stem Cell Line” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [7] of the United States of America, detailing the first derivation of primate [8] embryonic stem cells [6]. In the following years, Thomson [5] and his team of scientists—Joseph Itskovitz-Eldor, Sander S. Shapiro, Michelle A. Waknitz, Jennifer J. Swiergiel, Vivienne S. Marshall, and Jeffry M. Jones—advanced their work with embryonic stem cells [6], eventually isolating and culturing human embryonic stem cells [6]. Their work with human embryos was reported in the 1998 Nature article “Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Blastocysts.”