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Discovery of Teratocarcinomas and Embryonal Carcinoma Cells by Leroy Stevens
This was the first step in discovering the true power of stem cells, it had great proliferation potential and were capable of differentiating into many tissue types.
This accidental discovery provided the scientific community with a taste of how great the capacity for cellular differentiation was and would serve as the foundation for later research into stem cells. -
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Discovery of Hematopoietic Stem Cells
Ernest McCulloch and James Till were the two researchers who identified hematopoietic stem cells in mice.
Such cells were found to possess two important properties, including self renewal and differentiation.
This was an important finding for bone marrow transplantation.