Making the paper: Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte.

The article reports on the breakthrough in stem cell research in Japan in 2006 and the efforts of various scientists worldwide in testing the cells in 2009. According to the Japanese research, induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells were produced when mouse skin cells return to an embryonic cell through manipulation. It cites that scientist Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte and his colleagues in California, has successfully generated iPS cells from skin cells of a patient with Fanconi anaemia.