They sought permission to create these embryos, using a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer.
Victoria has become the first Australian state to propose legislation approving the use of somatic cell nuclear transfer.
The bill would allow Victorian researchers to clone human embryos for medical research through somatic cell nuclear transfer.
He will tell the inquiry that therapeutic cloning, also known as somatic cell nuclear transfer.
The first, and less controversial, is called somatic gene therapy.
My experience of beauty is somatic : the heightened pulse, the racing heart.