(431)  HUMAN CLONING AT THE ROSLIN INSTITUTE

The application by Professor Ian Wilmut of the Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, for a licence to clone human embryos for use in research into motor neurone disease (see No 387) was granted by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority on 8 February 2005.  It was the second grant by the HFEA of a licence for such therapeutic human cloning research, the first having been made to Newcastle University in August 2004.  That decision is now the subject of a judicial review application in London brought by the Lawyers Christian Fellowship.