Sentences with phrase «using human fetal tissue»

Today academic institutions and teaching hospitals across the country receive federal or private grants to support groundbreaking research using human fetal tissue on a wide range of conditions including diabetes, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, spinal cord injuries, hemophilia, leukemia, sickle cell anemia, cortical blindness, fetal aneuploidy, ALS, and others.

The oft - cited vaccines for polio, measles, and mumps were never produced using human fetal tissue but rather used monkey cells, chicken eggs, and non-fetal human cells.

«Research using human fetal tissue is invaluable to scientific and medical communities worldwide that study and work on human development and disease,» said Hans Clevers, president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), and a stem cell researcher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, in a statement released 14 July.

In reality, none of the nearly 75 vaccine formulations currently licensed in the United States is produced using human fetal tissue...»

This month, the House of Representatives approved a spending bill that bans the National Institutes of Health from funding any research that uses human fetal tissue obtained from abortions.

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«Several letters [from the Association of American Medical Colleges and others]... suggest that human fetal tissue is used for modern vaccine production.

Using a mouse model of HSV - 1 as well as autopsied samples of human adult and fetal tissues, investigators from Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine found that antibodies against HSV - 1 produced by adult women or female mice could travel to the nervous systems of their yet unborn babies, preventing the development and spread of infection during birth.

Past clinical trials of stem cell therapies for chronic stroke patients used cells derived from tumors in humans and brain tissue from fetal pigs.

Biochemist Thomas Baldwin, president of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, in a letter to the House and Senate appropriations committees, wrote that «research using fetal tissue and embryonic stem cells advances scientific knowledge, improves human health, and saves lives.»

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These are usually condemned, in whole or in part, for human consumption, and are generally sent for rendering along with other by - products, parts and items that are unwanted or unsuitable for human use — such as out - of - date supermarket meats (along with their plastic wrappers), cut - away cancerous tissue, parasitized livers, and fetal tissue (which is very high in hormones).