Dolly creator gets human cloning licence

Wilmut and Christopher Shaw, a motor neuron expert of the Institute of Psychiatry in London, plan to clone cells from patients with the incurable muscle-wasting disease. They would then derive blank-slate stem cells from the cloned embryo, and allow them to develop into nerve cells. This would then be compared with nerve cells derived from healthy embryos.
The mechanism behind motor neuron disease is poorly understood because researchers cannot access the nerves in the brain and central nervous system and also cannot be removed from the patients.