James Thomson (cell Biologist)
James Alexander Thomson (born December 20, 1958) is an American developmental biologist best known for deriving the first human embryonic stem (ES) cell line in 1998 and for deriving human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells in 2007.
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“Fowls in the frith,
Fishes in the flood,
And I must wax wod:
Much sorrow I walk with
For best of bone and blood.”
—Unknown. Fowls in the Frith. . .
Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxford University Press.
“The savage soul of game is up at once—
The pack full-opening various, the shrill horn
Resounded from the hills, the neighing steed
Wild for the chase, and the loud hunter’s shout—
O’er a weak, harmless, flying creature, all
Mixed in mad tumult and discordant joy.”
—James Thomson (1700–1748)