YOUR report about research involving maggots cleaning wounds was interesting (January 12).

I was involved in the same line of research more than ten years ago while working for Oxford University's zoology department and it proved to be most successful.

The two institutions involved should consult and learn from each other's involvement.

It would save a lot of time and, of course, money.

S P Roberts,

Church Lane,

Nether Poppleton, York.

Updated: 11:45 Friday, January 14, 2005