title: A new licence to clone.
abstract: Many countries are still grappling with the issue of therapeutic cloning of human cells as the UN tackles this issue alongside reproductive cloning, but in the UK a new programme looking at the causes of motor neuron disease has recently been sanctioned. Michael Gross reports.
authors.affiliation: School of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK. www.proseandpassion.com
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gross
mesh_terms: D000690:Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis / Q000628:therapy*; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000639:trends*; D019976:Cloning, Organism / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000166:cytology*; D039901:Totipotent Stem Cells; D006113:United Kingdom; D014480:United Nations