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Seventeen years after the first description of the derivation and properties of mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells [1, 2], Thomson and co-workers [3] reported the isolation of human ES cells from blastocysts. The derivation of human ES cells has led to hopes that their availability will revolutionise biomedical research and transplantation medicine. While it is not difficult to envision potential applications...