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Nature
450,
1134-1135
(2007)
| doi:10.1038/4501134a
Corrected online: 23 January 2008
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Pluripotent stem cells created from human skin
Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University in Japan and his colleagues and James Thomson at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his co-workers separately managed to create pluripotent stem cells from human skin. Reported on the same day in November, the cells can differentiate into any tissue type, and raise hopes that regenerative medicine will be possible from cells other than human embryonic stem cells.
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"Xiaoyu had been convicted of corruption over allegations he took 6.49 million yuan (US$85,000) for pushing questionable drugs through the approval process." Here (US$85,000) should be (US$850,000).
Yes,Mr Mao is right.I like Naturenews 2007,and I also like breakthrough of the year in Sciencemag.
Knut the cute polar bear: I believe it would have been more appropriate had nature at the end of this year published a correction of their claim that "animal-rights extremists demanded he be put down", rather than perpetuating the mistake made by a Bild Zeitung, a newspaper not famous for in depth investigation! I hope that nature does check their sources in a more scientific way for its remaining reporting!
A lot is going on in Africa recently and it would be great if we could read more about science arena in Africa.