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Stem Cells

Written question tabled by Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench) on Monday, 16 March 2015, in the House of Lords for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. It is due for an answer on Monday, 30 March 2015.

Question

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Drayson on 19 May 2009 (WA 290), Baroness Wilcox on 3 October 2011 (WA 114–5), Baroness Garden of Frognal on 5 November 2012 (WA 168) and Lord Marland on 4 December 2012 (WA 131), whether the journal article "detailing further findings on the therapeutic potential and efficiency" of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) still remains unpublished following the end of Professor Mary Herbert’s research study; if so, what are the reasons for the apparent lack of progress; if not, when they advised that the article had been published; how the derivation of embryonic stem cells (ESC) following nuclear transfer as described in the article has improved on the efficiency of ESC derivation from clones as previously described by others in 2013 in the journal Cell (Volume 153, Issue 6, pages 1228–38) and the journal Cell Stem Cell (Volume 14, Issue 6, pages 777–80); and what were the novel "technological advances" described by Professor Herbert "to improve the efficiency of SCNT in human oocytes" and thus "develop a reproducible method of generating human embryonic stem cells".‪

Type
Written question
Reference
HL5746
Session
2014-15
Embryology
Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Written questions
House of Lords
Health: Medical Research
Monday, 3 October 2011
Written questions
House of Lords
Embryology
Monday, 5 November 2012
Written questions
House of Lords
Embryology
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Written questions
House of Lords
Subjects
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