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James A. Thomson is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a substantial number of publications in these fields. Medical sciences also form a significant part of their research portfolio.

The scientist's work spans several subfields including molecular biology, surgery, biomaterials, oncology, and biomedical engineering. Their key research topics cover pluripotent stem cells, electrospun nanofibers in biomedical applications, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, CRISPR and genetic engineering, genomics and phylogenetic studies, CAR-T cell therapy research, and single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

Frequent venues where the researcher publishes include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Stem Cell Reports
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Global Open
  • Materials Science and Engineering C

Common collaborators with whom the scientist has published multiple papers are:

  • Ron Stewart (18 papers)
  • Jennifer M. Bolin (9 papers)
  • Igor I. Slukvin (9 papers)
  • Scott Swanson (8 papers)
  • Peng Jiang (8 papers)

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Generation of anti-GD2 CAR macrophages from human pluripotent stem cells for cancer immunotherapies" (2023), published in Stem Cell Reports
  • "Surface modification of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) with a heparin-immobilized extracellular matrix (ECM) coating for small-diameter vascular grafts applications" (2021), published in Materials Science and Engineering C
  • "SOX17 integrates HOXA and arterial programs in hemogenic endothelium to drive definitive lympho-myeloid hematopoiesis" (2021), published in Cell Reports
  • "Cardiac muscle patches containing four types of cardiac cells derived from human pluripotent stem cells improve recovery from cardiac injury in mice" (2023), published in Cardiovascular Research
  • "Biologically Functionalized Expanded Polytetrafluoroethylene Blood Vessel Grafts" (2020), published in Biomacromolecules

Best Publications

  • Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Blastocysts

    James A. Thomson;Joseph Itskovitz-Eldor;Sander S. Shapiro;Michelle A. Waknitz

  • Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines Derived From Human Somatic Cells

    Junying Yu;Maxim A. Vodyanik;Kim Smuga-Otto;Jessica Antosiewicz-Bourget

  • Integrative analysis of 111 reference human epigenomes

    Anshul Kundaje;Wouter Meuleman;Wouter Meuleman;Jason Ernst

  • Human DNA methylomes at base resolution show widespread epigenomic differences

    Ryan Lister;Mattia Pelizzola;Robert H. Dowen;R. David Hawkins

  • Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Free of Vector and Transgene Sequences

    Junying Yu;Junying Yu;Kejin Hu;Kim Smuga-Otto;Kim Smuga-Otto;Shulan Tian;Shulan Tian

  • Histone Modifications at Human Enhancers Reflect Global Cell-Type-Specific Gene Expression

    Nathaniel D. Heintzman;Gary C. Hon;R. David Hawkins;Pouya Kheradpour

  • In vitro differentiation of transplantable neural precursors from human embryonic stem cells

    Su-Chun Zhang;Marius Wernig;Ian D. Duncan;Oliver Brüstle

  • Clonally Derived Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Maintain Pluripotency and Proliferative Potential for Prolonged Periods of Culture

    Michal Amit;Melissa K. Carpenter;Margaret S. Inokuma;Choy-Pik Chiu

  • Genome sequencing and analysis of the model grass Brachypodium distachyon

    John P. Vogel;David F. Garvin;Todd C. Mockler;Jeremy Schmutz

  • Induced pluripotent stem cells from a spinal muscular atrophy patient

    Allison D. Ebert;Junying Yu;Ferrill F. Rose;Virginia B. Mattis

  • The NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Mapping Consortium

    Bradley E Bernstein;John A Stamatoyannopoulos;Joseph F Costello;Bing Ren

  • Hotspots of aberrant epigenomic reprogramming in human induced pluripotent stem cells

    Ryan Lister;Mattia Pelizzola;Yasuyuki S. Kida;R. David Hawkins

  • Isolation of a primate embryonic stem cell line

    James A. Thomson;Jennifer Kalishman;Thaddeus G. Golos;Maureen Durning

  • Functional Cardiomyocytes Derived From Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

    Jianhua Zhang;Gisela F. Wilson;Andrew G. Soerens;Chad H. Koonce

  • Chromatin architecture reorganization during stem cell differentiation

    Jesse R. Dixon;Inkyung Jung;Siddarth Selvaraj;Yin Shen

  • Primate embryonic stem cells

    James A. Thomson

  • Chemically defined conditions for human iPSC derivation and culture

    Guokai Chen;Daniel R Gulbranson;Daniel R Gulbranson;Zhonggang Hou;Zhonggang Hou;Jennifer M Bolin

  • Multilineage differentiation from human embryonic stem cell lines.

    Jon S. Odorico;Dan S. Kaufman;James A. Thomson

  • Derivation of human embryonic stem cells in defined conditions.

    Tenneille E Ludwig;Mark E Levenstein;Jeffrey M Jones;Jeffrey M Jones;W Travis Berggren

  • Somatic coding mutations in human induced pluripotent stem cells

    Athurva Gore;Zhe Li;Ho Lim Fung;Jessica E. Young

Frequent Co-Authors

Ron Stewart
Ron Stewart Morgridge Institute for Research
Timothy J. Kamp
Timothy J. Kamp University of Wisconsin–Madison
William L. Murphy
William L. Murphy University of Wisconsin–Madison
Bing Ren
Bing Ren New York Genome Center
Christina Kendziorski
Christina Kendziorski University of Wisconsin–Madison
Dan S. Kaufman
Dan S. Kaufman University of California, San Diego
Joseph R. Ecker
Joseph R. Ecker Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Michael Kyba
Michael Kyba University of Minnesota

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