First mouse cells were turned into «totipotent» stem cells, and now early work suggests the same might have been achieved with human cells (newscientist.com)
«We were astonished that this worked on the very first mouse we ever tried,» he says. (sciencedaily.com)
The same was true of the earliest Apple products: Apple II would have been impossible without innovations by Xerox's PARC — above all its Star computer — and Douglas Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute patented the first mouse in 1967. (canadianbusiness.com)