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Spurred by the discoveries of human pluripotent stem cell culture by James Thomson in the 1990s and the induction of pluripotency from adult cells by Shinya Yamanaka in the 2000s, therapeutics derived ...

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Anna Nordseth is an ecology writer and Duke University Ph.D. candidate specializing in tropical forest ecology, conservation research, and biodiversity. Boreal forests, or taiga, are found between 50 ...