Question
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consideration was given by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s licence committee members or any of its peer reviewers to the experience of physicians at the University of Minnesota since 1984 in requiring immunosuppression for multiple transplants from non-diabetic identical twin donors to their diabetic twin counterparts before concluding that cloning offered a means of avoiding ““the likelihood of rejection of the transplanted cells””; and what assessment the Authority had made of epigenetic defects associated with somatic cell nuclear transfer, both generally and in relation to its latter critique of iPS cells.
Answer
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has advised that it has nothing to add to the Written Answer given to the noble Lord on 16 December 2010 (Official Report, cols. WA 210-11) by Baroness Wilcox and my Written Answer of 24 January 2011 (Official Report, cols. WA 96-97).