James Thomson, a biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, turned to Geron, a biotech firm in Menlo Park, Calif.

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Thirteen years ago, in a small closet-like laboratory, a University of Wisconsin scientist named James Thomson used funding from a Menlo Park, Calif.

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James Thomson, a biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, turned to Geron (nasdaq: GERN - news - people ), a biotech firm in Menlo Park, Calif.

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Instead of generating embryonic stem cell lines via nuclear transfer, Hwang's group produced the stem cells from days-old embryos, a technique that had already been established by James Thomson at University of Wisconsin in 1998.

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James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin, who co-wrote the paper in Science and created the first human embryonic stem cells a decade ago, said on a conference call that these new cells are going to be "very powerful" in testing new medicines.

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They are Belinda Robertson, Michelle Mone, James Sugden and Jim Thomson.

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Although the details of her case provoked much horror and sorrow in 1968, there was little of the media-stoked outrage that accompanied the case of Robert Thomson and John Venables, two children from Liverpool, who also killed a smaller child, James Bulger, in 1993.

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