A little bit of history about cells

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Stem cells, known as "cellules souches" in French, were first successfully utilized in a bone marrow transplant for treating Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) in 1968. The isolation of mouse embryonic stem cells occurred in 1981, with human embryonic stem cells being characterized in 1998. Gail Martin, a developmental biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, is credited with coining the term "stem cells" during her research on mouse cells.
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Hey Everyone :)

I'm trying to find out the year on which ~stocks cells~ has been discovered? I'm really not sure about the english word... but in french we call them "cellules souches". I've search a bit on google but couldn't find anything.

Edit: Okay I found the correct english word, they are call Stem Cells. :-p

Thanks!
- Alex
 
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Monique said:
In 1968 the first bone marrow transplant was successfulling used for the treatment of SCID. In 1981 mouse embryonic stem cells were first isolated, in 1998 human embryonic stem cells were first characterized.
Hope this may help. It was posted by Monique for a previous thread.

Bone marrow may be described as somatic stem cells. The person who first coined the term http://www.ucsf.edu/research/stem_cells.html was Gail Martin, a developmental biologist at Univ of Cal - San Francisco, she co-discivered them in cell mouse studies in 1981.
 
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