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Nature Medicine 14, 601 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nm0608-601

The stem cell parade

Margaret A Goodell1

  1. Margaret A. Goodell is Director of the Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Center at Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77098, USA. e-mail: jesserothmd@hotmail.com

The stem cell field has exploded over the past ten years, from a few curious and dedicated investigators to a virtual Mardi Gras parade of scientists, with young investigators joining in droves and senior investigators donning stem cell cloaks to jump on a passing float. Cynthia Fox takes a historian's perspective to explore the key transforming events in this field, such as the first isolation of human embryonic stem (ES) cells and the in vitro fertilization–based origins of therapeutic cloning.