Will cloning cure these people?

MILLIONS of people who have diseases which are currently incurable were given hope yesterday when British scientists were granted permission to clone human embryos for medical research.

Ever since 1996, when Dolly the Sheep - the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell - was born, there has been hope that cures for serious debilitating diseases are just around the corner.

In 2000, a team at Texas A&M University cloned a bull named “86 Squared” which was naturally resistant to three serious cattle diseases - brucellosis, tuberculosis and salmonellosis.