Dolly: was cloned by scientists.

THE first British research licence of its kind permitting a technique that creates embryonic stem cells from human eggs has been granted to the scientists who cloned Dolly the sheep, it was announced yesterday.

The Roslin Institute near Edinburgh has been given the go-ahead to artificially stimulate donated human eggs in a process known as parthenogenesis - the first time the research has been carried out in Britain.

Scientists have also been granted permission to carry out research on embryos donated as a result of IVF treatment.