The creation of human embryos in a lab in order to remove special cells and grow them into body tissue, such as nerves, muscles, organs and bone. The current law bans the research needed to develop therapeutic cloning. By law, scientists can only work with stem cells less than 14 days old to carry out research into understanding fertility, reproduction or congenital disorders. Using stem cells for any other purpose is not allowed.
Human cloning is against the law for whatever purpose.
A government-appointed panel recommended that scientists should be permitted to create cloned embryos to study the creation of cells and tissues for transplant, but the House of Lords is threatening to reject the legislation. Peers accuse the government of attempting to railroad the plans through parliament and are demanding further research. In the same way that Dolly the sheep was created. Scientists take genetic material from a cell in an adult's body and fuse it with an empty egg cell. They trigger this to grow into an embryo.