But thetherapeutic cloning technique they employed would also be the start of the process of making duplicate humans.

New research from the University of Nevada, Reno provides strong evidence that a majority of Americans favor ongoing research in all stem cell research, including the use oftherapeutic cloning which is currently banned in the US.

Less than two months later, Cerra testified that "therapeutic cloning ...

Prompted by an image oftherapeutic cloning presented on a South Korean stamp, a brief review of stem cell research and the events of the Woo-suk Hwang scandal are discussed.

An Australian ban on the research, known astherapeutic cloning or somatic cell nuclear transfer, was lifted in December 2006 after a rare conscience vote in the national parliament.

The British government introduced legislation in order to allow licensedtherapeutic cloning in a debate in January 2001 after an amendment to the Human Fertilization & Embryology Act 1990.

Ever since the birth of Dolly the sheep in 1997, this kind oftherapeutic cloning has been a goal for medical research.

The Edinburgh University professor, said the new technique was "easier to accept socially" thantherapeutic cloning.

The cloned embryo is allowed to grow for a few days and then is either implanted in a mother's womb (for reproductive cloning) or destroyed in order to retrieve its stem cells (fortherapeutic cloning).

Opponents of the amendment had hoped that it would be defeated because it allows human embryos to be destroyed, and it allows "therapeutic cloning" of humans.

"Stem cell research promises huge potential medical advantages and we believe we will be working towards our ultimate goal of developing new patient therapies." If granted the HFEA licence will allow scientists to create hybrid embryos through a technique known as nuclear transfer, ortherapeutic cloning.