Question
To ask Her Majesty’s Government further to the Written Answers by Baroness Garden of Frognal on 5 November (WA 168) and by Lord Marland on 20 November (WA 340–41), when the journal article “detailing further findings on the therapeutic potential and efficiency” of somatic cell nuclear transfer was first submitted for publication; to which open-access journals it has already been submitted; and whether the authors of the unpublished article are California Institute for Regenerative Medicine staff or those who had been recipients of Medical Research Council funding in order to obtain eggs for research from women.[HL3685]
Answer
The journal article which will detail further findings on the therapeutic potential and efficiency, referred to in the previous response from Baroness Garden of Frognal on 5 November 2012, relates to the findings of the MRC funded grant and will be authored by the grant recipients.
The paper has yet to be published and so it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage. However, we will advise the noble Lord when the article has been published.