A popular name for the proposed use of embryo stem cells, derived using somatic cell nuclear transfer technology, to develop genetically-matched cell therapies for a range of diseases.
The Royal Society has urged the British government to consider setting up a bank of frozen human stem cells, in a report submitted this week to the expert panel on therapeutic cloning. The panel, headed by Chief Medical Officer Liam Donaldson, is currently considering the scientific, ethical and legal issues...
Scientists at Geron BioMed, the company launched after a merger between the team that cloned Dolly the sheep at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh and a stem cell research company in the US, is now concentrating on therapeutic cloning techniques that do not require human egg cells. Cloning in the...
Patents for nuclear transfer cloning have been granted to the Edinburgh-based researchers who created Dolly the sheep, almost five years after they were filed for by the Roslin Institute. This is thought to be the most significant patenting in the field of therapeutic cloning, a market worth billions of pounds...
Lord Sainsbury has publicly expressed his support for a change in legislation to allow research that could lead to tissue therapies for numerous degenerative disorders. Sainsbury was invited to speak at a fringe meeting of the Labour Party conference last week by the Bio Industry Association. He shared a platform...
Professor Liam Donaldson, the Chief Medical Officer, announced the membership and terms of reference of the expert group set up to examine the potential benefits and risks of - and alternatives to - therapeutic cloning research. The expert group was established by the UK government to further explore the pros and cons...
Despite the government's recent announcement of a delay in making a decision on whether to allow human embryo research using cloning techniques, it appears that some research may be legally possible in the UK. So-called therapeutic cloning attempts to marry developments in embryo stem cell research with cloning technology, in...
Two prominent science bodies in Australia have delivered similar recommendations on the regulation and ethics of human cloning. Both the Australian Academy of Science and the Human Genome Project (HUGO) recommend that reproductive cloning be prohibited, whilst supporting therapeutic cloning under ethical guidelines, peer review and public scrutiny. The academy...
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