Biotech & Genetics · Recorded milestone
Induced stem cells
Recorded year2006
Shinya Yamanaka reprograms adult cells back into stem cells.
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- Recombinant DNARecorded · 1973requires
- DNA sequencingRecorded · 1977requires
- Mammal cloningRecorded · 1996enables
Led to
- OrganoidsRecorded · 2009enables
- Partial reprogramming in miceRecorded · 2016enables
- Cultivated meat approvedRecorded · 2020enables
- Stem-cell-derived cell therapyRecorded · 2025enables
- Baldness reversedForecast · ~2032enables
- Eggs and sperm from skin cellsForecast · ~2035enables
- Grey hair reversedForecast · ~2035enables
- Lab-grown hair folliclesForecast · ~2038enables
- Bioprinted organsForecast · ~2042enables
- Handheld skin printerForecast · ~2047enables
- Joints regrown not replacedForecast · ~2052enables
- De-extinct speciesForecast · ~2055requires
- Paralysis routinely reversedForecast · ~2055requires
- Robots with living muscleForecast · ~2055enables
- Human organs grown in pigsForecast · ~2062enables
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.