• Paul Tuns: Kerry Lavender, an assistant professor of biochemistry, microbiology, and immunology at the University of Saskatchewan's College of Medicine, wrote two articles based on government-funded research she has conducted on "humanized mice" experiments that used fetal tissue procured from aborted preborn babies. (theinterim.com)
  • The laboratory, which is supported by the National Institutes of Health, can supply tissue from normal or abnormal embryos and fetuses of desired gestational ages between 40 days and term. (blessedquietness.com)
  • Note that fetal tissue has been taken in a number of cases from fetuses at developmental ages where fetal surgery is now used to correct problems and save lives, and at stages where science now demonstrates that the unborn fetus can feel pain. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • Between 1988 and 1994, roughly 140 Parkinson's disease patients received fetal tissue (up to six fetuses per patient), with varying results. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • One patient who received transplant of fetal brain tissue (from a total of 3 fetuses) died subsequently, and at autopsy was found to have various non-brain tissues ( e.g, skin-like tissue, hair, cartilage, and other tissue nodules) growing in his brain. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • Human fetal pancreata (HFP) were obtained from dilatation and extraction aborted fetuses of 11-18 weeks' gestation. (elsevierpure.com)
  • However, regardless of how strongly you support life, you may unknowingly be cooperating in aborted fetal cell research by purchasing products that use aborted fetuses either in the product itself or in its development. (hli.org)
  • 2011. A melodic contour repeatedly experienced by human near-term fetuses elicits a profound cardiac reaction one month after birth. (babycenter.in)
  • Gholipour - Harvard Medical School's director of translational radiology research - took scans of 50 fetuses at 25 weeks and 36 weeks using standard magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as well as brain-specific diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), which maps the diffusion process of molecules within cells. (technologynetworks.com)
  • There is additional stock footage of full fetuses - again, not shot in Planned Parenthood clinics, and also not used in the original Human Capital videos. (vox.com)
  • The Human Capital series includes footage of fetuses from a separate source (The Center for Bioethical Reform ) and an interview with a former employee of StemExpress , a company that procures human tissue for researchers. (vox.com)
  • Very little research is actually being done that currently relies on abortion-derived fetal tissues. (breitbart.com)
  • Since the widespread legalization of abortion, abortionists, protected and promoted by media publicists, have dramatized the plight of the poor pregnant girl whose life can only be set right by free and easy access to tax-funded abortions. (blessedquietness.com)
  • Following the release, last May, of a powerful LifeTalk video featuring "Kelly," a fetal tissue procurer for the Maryland-based Anatomic Gifts Foundation, Life Dynamics has released documentation obtained from fetal tissue wholesalers, that is, companies which place their employees in abortion facilities to harvest tissue, limbs, organs, etc. (blessedquietness.com)
  • Research conducted using fetal tissue remains from abortion is unethical. (californiafamily.org)
  • Texas moved to exclude Planned Parenthood from Medicaid years ago after a highly-edited video from an anti-abortion group suggested abortion providers sold fetal tissue. (texastribune.org)
  • The case stems from a long-running flap over a misleading video released in late 2015 by the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress, which suggested that abortion providers at Planned Parenthood sold fetal tissue for profit. (texastribune.org)
  • Both administrations opposed abortion, with support from some conservative political and religious groups, based on the view that human life begins when the ovum is fertilized and that the resulting embryo has legal rights to protection similar to those of an infant, child, or adult. (the-scientist.com)
  • In less than two weeks, Oregon, Alabama and West Virginia voters will face separate ballot initiatives aimed at restricting abortion access in those states. (theglobaldispatch.com)
  • The recent release of heavily edited videos is part of a three year smear campaign orchestrated by one of the more extreme anti-abortion groups whose goal is to prevent women from accessing the care they need. (nysbpclc.com)
  • The Act has been consulted in discussions about abortion , fetal tissue transplants, and Body Worlds , an anatomy exhibition. (asu.edu)
  • The 1968 UAGA set a legislative precedent for the donation of fetal organs and tissues and has been in the background of many debates regarding abortion and fetal tissue research. (asu.edu)
  • David Prentice, vice president and research director at the anti-abortion Charlotte Lozier Institute, and associate scholar Dr. James Sherley wrote in a piece on the organization's website that regardless of their individual views, policymakers, healthcare officials, scientists, vaccine creators and funders should consider that the potential ethical dilemma may be a barrier for accessing the vaccine for some. (newsweek.com)
  • It is [odd] to claim that federal judges, who have no experience in the regulations and ethics applicable to Medicaid or medical practice, much less in regard to harvesting fetal organs for research, should claim superior expertise. (texastribune.org)
  • In its announcement, NIH said in the near future it would be seeking grant applications for the development of "models that closely mimic and can be used to faithfully model human embryonic development or other aspects of human biology, for example, the human immune system, that do not rely on the use of human fetal tissue obtained from elective abortions. (breitbart.com)
  • NIH continued that while human fetal tissue and embryonic stem cell-derived systems have been used for researching human development and diseases, "new technologies raise the potential of reconstituting these model systems without fetal tissue yielding more replicable and reproducible system for broader uses. (breitbart.com)
  • Human embryonic and fetal tissues are available from the Central Laboratory for Human Embryology at the University of Washington. (blessedquietness.com)
  • To do this, they had to produce an army of never-tiring taste testers - that is, flavor receptors engineered from human embryonic kidney cells (HEK-293, a fetal kidney cell line popular in pharmaceutical research). (hli.org)
  • Your children might enjoy using coffee creamers and eat soup with artificial flavor enhancers (Senomyx and Firmenich) tested on artificial taste buds engineered from aborted fetal cells. (hli.org)
  • The merge does not seem to have stopped the use of aborted fetal cells in development. (hli.org)
  • Researchers currently explore prospects of using 3D printing or stem cells to produce organs, but some such research projects have been crictised for their use of human embryos taken through abortions, as in controversies about Planned Parenthood's selling of fetal organs and tissues for research. (wikipedia.org)
  • There has also been controversy over the donation of embryos, which the 2006 Act addresses by stating that it neither allows or disallows the use of donated embryos for research, and that other federal laws address this topic. (asu.edu)
  • In a 2012 letter to Children of God for Life, PepsiCo stated that "Senomyx does not use HEK cells or any other tissues or cell lines derived from human embryos or babies for research performed on behalf of PepsiCo. (hli.org)
  • Background: Rich in different kind of potent cells, embryos are used in modern regenerative medicine and research. (lu.se)
  • Methods: This article examines different emotional, cognitive and discursive strategies used by neurobiologists in a foetal cell transplantation trial in Parkinson's disease research, using cells harvested from aborted embryos. (lu.se)
  • The World Health Organization argues that transplantation promote health, but the notion of "transplantation tourism" has the potential to violate human rights or exploit the poor, to have unintended health consequences, and to provide unequal access to services, all of which ultimately may cause harm. (wikipedia.org)
  • There are fewer debates on animal sources, as historically laboratory animals have been used to develop organ transplantation technologies for prolonging human life, such as using animal organs in xenotransplantation on human. (wikipedia.org)
  • In practice, organ and tissue banks often choose patients in ways that secure their revenue, whereas "altruistic" clinics may not have the income necessary to fund their own needs, let alone to support research and development to improve quality and availability of care People with intellectual disabilities have historically been excluded from organ transplantation waitlists. (wikipedia.org)
  • These preparatory interregional and interdisciplinary meetings focused on the following areas: cloning and human reproductive health, biologicals, organ transplantation, research, and medical genetics. (who.int)
  • Section 3 provides a list of qualified donees, the recipients of the gift, including hospitals, medical schools, universities, and storage facilities for the purpose of research and education as well as individuals who will receive the gift for transplantation. (asu.edu)
  • Report of the Human Fetal Tissue Transplantation Research Panel, December 1988 / consultants to the Advisory Committee to the Director, National Institutes of Health. (who.int)
  • First Global Consultation on Regulatory Requirements for Human Cells and Tissues for Transplantation, Ottawa, 29 November to 1December 2004 : report. (who.int)
  • Each year, less than 2% of pregnant women in the United States undergo amniocentesis (in which a small amount of amniotic fluid containing fetal cells is taken for analysis) or chorionic villus sampling (CVS - in which fetal tissue is extracted from the placenta). (nature.com)
  • Biologists have known for decades that some fetal cells pass through the placenta and into the mother's blood stream. (nature.com)
  • In all three tissues, 8-isoprostane release was greater in women with GDM, and stimulation with LPS increased 8-isoprostane release from adipose and skeletal muscle, but not placenta, obtained from women with GDM. (edu.au)
  • However, in tissues obtained from normal pregnant women, LPS stimulation increased 8-isoprostane release in placenta and had no effect in adipose tissue and skeletal muscle. (edu.au)
  • Their was no difference in the release of TNF-alpha, IL-6, and IL-8 from placenta, adipose tissue, and skeletal muscle obtained from normal pregnant women and women with GDM. (edu.au)
  • Stimulation of placenta, adipose tissue, and skeletal muscle with LPS and TNF-alpha resulted in greater release of IL-6 and IL-8, whereas only LPS increased TNF-alpha release from all three tissues. (edu.au)
  • The data presented in this study demonstrate that there is a differential release of 8-isoprostane from fetal (placenta) and maternal (adipose tissue and skeletal muscle) tissues obtained from normal pregnant women and women with GDM. (edu.au)
  • The Obama-appointed director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) says that human fetal tissue from elective abortions "will continue to be the mainstay" for federal research. (breitbart.com)
  • Prior to Collins' comments, some pro-life members of Congress were encouraged last week when NIH announced it would spend up to $20 million on alternatives to the use of fetal tissue from elective abortions for research. (breitbart.com)
  • Hospitals exist to heal and preserve life, and yet Magee-Women's Hospital has utterly betrayed that mandate of Hippocratic medicine by actively participating in the intentional and violent destruction of innocent human life by carrying out elective abortions. (studentsforlife.org)
  • Last Wednesday, the Department of Health and Human Services restricted the use of federal funds for research using fetal tissue from abortions. (californiafamily.org)
  • Wasting no time in response, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, along with 15 other Attorneys General, sent a letter on Thursday to President Trump and the Department of Health and Human Services, urging the administration to end the ban on federal funds for research using fetal tissue from abortions. (californiafamily.org)
  • Dr. Tara Sander Lee of the Charlotte Lozier Institute testified that human fetal tissue was never needed for research because of viable alternatives such as adult stem cells. (breitbart.com)
  • 2000. Breast adipose tissue concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls and other organochlorines and breast cancer risk. (cdc.gov)
  • 2019. Brown adipose tissue in human infants. (babycenter.in)
  • and 2) investigate the effect of stimulation on the release of cytokines from sc adipose tissue and skeletal muscle from normal pregnant women and women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). (edu.au)
  • Downregulated adipose tissue expression of browning genes with increased environmental temperatures. (medscape.com)
  • Long-term follow-up of a few of the patients in these large studies showed that even in fetal tissue that grew in patients' brains, the grafted tissue took on signs of the disease and were not effective. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • Upcoming research from Binghamton University and Harvard Medical School will use computer modeling and advanced imaging of developing fetal brains to try to answer some of those longstanding questions. (technologynetworks.com)
  • How those 50 fetal brains grew and folded then will be compared to Razavi's computer model to see whether the expected patterns match the actual ones. (technologynetworks.com)
  • However, the success of fetal tissue transplants has been meager at best, and ethically-derived alternatives exist and are coming to dominate the field. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • The first recorded fetal tissue transplants were in 1921 in the UK, in a failed attempt to treat Addison's disease, [1] and in 1928 in Italy, in a failed attempt to treat cancer. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • That attempt also failed, as did subsequent similar fetal tissue transplants in 1959. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • Between 1970 and 1991 approximately 1,500 people received fetal pancreatic tissue transplants in attempts to treat diabetes, mostly in the former Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • [8] Subsequent reports showed that severe problems developed from fetal tissue transplants. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • A second large, controlled study published in 2003 showed similar results (funded by NIH), with over half of the patients developing potentially disabling tremors caused by the fetal brain tissue transplants. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • [12] The results of these two large studies led to a moratorium on fetal tissue transplants for Parkinson's. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • Transplantations of fetal tissue in the 1980s and 1990s provided proof-of-concept for the potential of cell replacement therapy for PD and some patients benefitted greatly from their transplants. (lu.se)
  • For this investigation, a cluster-associated case was defined as isolation of L. monocytogenes serotype 1/2a from a normally sterile site (e.g., blood or cerebrospinal fluid) or from placental or fetal tissue (in the setting of miscarriage or stillbirth) since January 1, 2010, and PFGE pattern combination GX6A16.0001 and GX6A12.0001. (cdc.gov)
  • Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash) said last year , "Treating these tiny humans like a junkyard, where groups like Planned Parenthood can scavenge for parts, is hardly the retail business anyone should want to hang a shingle over. (californiafamily.org)
  • The sting video included edited clips of Planned Parenthood officials discussing the use of fetal tissue for research. (texastribune.org)
  • Planned Parenthood has said repeatedly that it does not profit from tissue sales or donations. (texastribune.org)
  • The Office of Inspector General, an arm of the state's health and human services agency charged with rooting out fraud and abuse, claimed the videos "showed "that Planned Parenthood violated state and federal law. (texastribune.org)
  • By denying Medicaid patients access to the qualified provider of their choice, the state is putting Texans' health in jeopardy," said Melaney A. Linton, the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast. (texastribune.org)
  • The cut-off could be delayed if the organization requests an administrative hearing with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission in the next 15 days , but Planned Parenthood officials say they will instead turn to the courts to block the cuts. (texastribune.org)
  • In the notice, Texas Health and Human Services Inspector General Stuart Bowen said the undercover videos - which depicted Planned Parenthood officials discussing the use of fetal tissue for research - showed "that Planned Parenthood violated state and federal law. (texastribune.org)
  • For almost a hundred years, Planned Parenthood has addressed a vital need for women across the country, providing access to a wide array of reproductive healthcare services," said Senator Krueger, BPCLC Co-Chair. (nysbpclc.com)
  • It includes some footage from the Planned Parenthood sting videos where technicians identify fetal body parts in petri dishes. (vox.com)
  • There is audio from a former StemExpress employee (a company Planned Parenthood contracted with to procure fetal tissue) describing her own experience with another technician: "She gave me the scissors and told me to cut down the middle of the face. (vox.com)
  • While there is discussion from the former StemExpress employer of procuring fetal brain tissue - a practice Planned Parenthood openly admits happens in its clinics - there is no discussion of keeping a fetus alive for that purpose. (vox.com)
  • Introduction to anatomy, general features of epithelial tissue, general organization of connective tissue, development of and hstology of cartilage and bone tissues, embryology and histology of skin, biochemistry of connective tissue, and bone tissue, skin and tissue parasites and fungi, arthropods and arthropods borne viruses. (atilim.edu.tr)
  • [5] Conditions such as anemias and immunodeficiencies, for which fetal tissue attempts largely failed, are now treated routinely with adult stem cells, including umbilical cord blood stem cells, [6] even while the patient is still in the womb. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • Unfortunately in most cases these compounds also damage normal human cells, and that damage limits the amount of drug that can be tolerated by patients. (sarcomahelp.org)
  • Targeted' therapy starts with the discovery of a protein that is expressed on the surface of tumor cells but not (or in a limited way) in normal human tissues. (sarcomahelp.org)
  • Recent on-going artworks are based on an EPRSC funded, Pathways to Impact (PiA) residency at the University of Southampton in the School of Medicine on Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine exploring the use of stem cells in the area of Bone and Joint research. (kathleenrogers.co.uk)
  • I have harnessed elements regenerative medicine space to create a new body of research, developing this most recent artworks on an EPRSC funded, Pathways to Impact (PiA) residency in the School of Medicine on Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine exploring the use of stem cells in the area of Bone and Joint research. (kathleenrogers.co.uk)
  • The site-specific research was produced in association with Professor Richard OC Oreffo and the Bone and Joint Research Group at the Centre for Human Development, Stem Cells and Regeneration, Human Development and Health, Faculty of Medicine. (kathleenrogers.co.uk)
  • Regenerative phenomena associated with stem cells touch on the deepest aspects of human identity. (kathleenrogers.co.uk)
  • Stem cell transfer treatments replace non-functioning and dead cells at tissue sites within the body with healthy donor cells. (kathleenrogers.co.uk)
  • At ThriveMD, we use stem cell injections to regenerate and repair cells so that a patient's body is able to establish normal cellular functioning in tissues that have decayed or become damaged in some way. (thrivemdclinic.com)
  • Preclinical In Vivo Modeling of Cytokine Release Syndrome Induced by ErbB-Retargeted Human T Cells: Identifying a Window of Therapeutic Opportunity? (kcl.ac.uk)
  • Human T4+ T cells exhibit antitumor activity against several ErbB+ cancer types. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • We show that the human T1E28z CAR efficiently recognizes mouse ErbB+ cells, rendering this species suitable to evaluate preclinical toxicity. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • Toxicity mediated by T4+ T cells results from target recognition in both tumor and healthy tissues, leading to release of both human (IL-2/IFN-γ) and murine (IL-6) cytokines. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • This 2002 opinion by the E.C. Europe Group on Ethic's addressed larger issues of patents on stem cells, but it's statements on patents and access to health care have broader implications. (cptech.org)
  • to ensure the respect of ethical principles through the control of public authorities, concerning import of human stem cells, where allowed. (cptech.org)
  • This present opinion deals with the specific ethical questions related to patenting of inventions involving human stem cells. (cptech.org)
  • Which Cosmetics Use Fetal Cells? (hli.org)
  • Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are the most commonly used cells in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. (frontiersin.org)
  • Technical problems have hampered attempts to isolate individual fetal cells and, even when such cells could be found, there was no guarantee that they were from the present pregnancy. (nature.com)
  • Andrea Gambotto, who is leading the research at the University of Pittsburgh, told Science why these human cells are useful. (newsweek.com)
  • Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) are multipotent cells which can be obtained from several adult and fetal tissues including human umbilical cord units. (escholarship.org)
  • The transformation process contains different phases, and in the interview material we observed that the foetal material or cells were considered objects, subjects or rejected as abject by the researchers handling them, depending on what phase of process or practice they referred to or had experience of. (lu.se)
  • Conclusions: The marginal and ambiguous status of the embryo that emerges in the accounts turns the scientists handling foetal cells into liminal characters in modern medicine. (lu.se)
  • However, post-mortem analysis of transplanted tissue revealed accumulation of pathological Lewy bodies in a small subset of transplanted cells over time, revealing a host-to-graft disease propagation. (lu.se)
  • The first part of the thesis (Paper I, II, III) shows the development and improvement of a hESC-based system of for virus-mediated direct reprogramming of human glial progenitor cells into both induced dopaminergic neurons (iDANs) and GABAergic interneurons. (lu.se)
  • The large proteoglycan molecules made up of protein cores, and GAG branches are secreted by cells and constitute a significant fraction of the extracellular matrix of connective tissue. (medscape.com)
  • The enzyme deficiencies lead to the accumulation of mucopolysaccharides in the lysosomes of the cells in the connective tissue and to an increase in their excretion in the urine. (medscape.com)
  • [2] The first fetal tissue transplant in the U.S. was in 1939, using fetal pancreatic tissue in an attempt to treat diabetes. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • Between 1960 and 1990, numerous attempts were made to transplant fetal liver and thymus for various conditions. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • For example, a gift received by a medical school must be used for research or for the improvement of the medical field, while a gift given to an individual must be used for his or her medical treatment or tissue transplant. (asu.edu)
  • In cold, clinical research terms, here is the end product of the "fetal tissue issue" - an economically important byproduct of the sexual revolution. (blessedquietness.com)
  • The investigators hope that this research will eventually lead to clinical trials of targeted treatments for LMS patients. (sarcomahelp.org)
  • Non-invasive prenatal genetic diagnosis is already in clinical use for fetal blood-type screening. (nature.com)
  • These molecular differences verified in tissue-specific MSC gene expression may reflect functional activities influenced by distinct niches and should be considered when developing clinical protocols involving MSC from different sources. (escholarship.org)
  • His research interests include imaging informatics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, telemedicine, cell-based therapies and clinical trial design. (stanford.edu)
  • He is the director of clinical and translational research and director of ophthalmic diagnostics for the Department of Ophthalmology. (stanford.edu)
  • She will establish and lead basic and translational research at the Stanford Amyloid Center, which will integrate clinical, research and training efforts related to amyloidosis. (stanford.edu)
  • The Application Guidance Notes (AGNS) provide question by question guidance for filling out the UBC Clinical research ethics application. (ubc.ca)
  • In this thesis, human glia-to-neuron direct conversion and engineered viral vectors are explored using pre-clinical in vitro and ex vivo models. (lu.se)
  • The recent results of AIDS Clinical Trials Group Protocol 076, a controlled clinical trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health in collaboration with the National Institute of Health and Medical Research and the National Agency of Research on AIDS in France, indicate that zidovudine administered to a selected group of HIV-infected women and their infants can reduce the risk for perinatal transmission of HIV by approximately two-thirds. (cdc.gov)
  • DBS is a widely used FDA-approved treatment and stem cell-derived dopamine neuron replacement has now evolved to the first in-human clinical trials. (lu.se)
  • Retrospective testing of 3,232 serum samples from the general population and 518 serum samples from a high-risk group showed no evidence of human exposure to Neospora caninum in England. (cdc.gov)
  • In the absence of a human positive control, we used a primate serum sample as a further positive control. (cdc.gov)
  • Therefore, we aimed to compare the efficiency of using humanized culture conditions, specifically human platelet lysate to fetal bovine serum, for iPS generation from different sources, and to evaluate their stemness. (biomedcentral.com)
  • iPS were generated via a platelet lysate or fetal bovine serum-based culturing protocol from matched dermal, buccal and gingival human fibroblasts, isolated from healthy donors ( n = 2) after informed consent, via episomal plasmid transfection. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Analysing the free-floating fragments of fetal DNA that exist in a pregnant woman's blood serum is proving more successful. (nature.com)
  • Two of the leading researchers in cell-free fetal DNA testing - Dennis Lo of the University of Hong Kong and Steve Quake of Stanford University in California - use different methods to analyse fetal cell-free DNA from maternal serum. (nature.com)
  • NIH) says that animal research allows scientists to "identify new ways to treat illnesses, extend life, and improve health and well-being. (studentsforlife.org)
  • In order to achieve this important goal, we need to make sure that scientists and medical professionals have access to the research and resources necessary to protect the population and safeguard the most vulnerable among us, including pregnant women and children. (californiafamily.org)
  • Leaving newborns to die is horrible, but letting scientists pick through their bodies for parts is an even larger affront to human dignity. (californiafamily.org)
  • The request came after the Trump administration said it would ban the use of human fetal tissue in scientific and medical research by government scientists, in a decision one stem-cell biologist told Nature would "set back research. (newsweek.com)
  • The honor, which includes a travel stipend, recognizes early career scientists for research excellence and potential in the fields of microbiology and infectious disease. (stanford.edu)
  • The awards, which include $1.5 million in seed funding for each recipient, recognize early career scientists whose innovative research has the potential to lead to improved therapies. (stanford.edu)
  • In over 100 years of unrestricted investigation, human fetal tissue research has had ample time to prove useful, yet it has failed to do so. (californiafamily.org)
  • that an object of investigation cannot be accessed outside of human conceptual frameworks to address and provide insights into the nature of causality, identity and nature. (kathleenrogers.co.uk)
  • 2016. Ultrasonographic Investigation of Human Fetus Responses to Maternal Communicative and Non-communicative Stimuli. (babycenter.in)
  • Therefore, in the last years characterization of macrophage phenotype in vivo during tissue repair has been a matter of active investigation. (hindawi.com)
  • We also discuss why the use and refinement of a tissue, around which there is practical consensus but cultural ambiguity, deserves further investigation. (lu.se)
  • Here, courtesy of the National Institutes of Health, in taxpayer-funded black and white, is the reality of America's culture of death: commercial cannibalism of the young of the human species, a business about to break into the mainstream as a coalition of major medical and health organizations, businesses, and associations press for federal funding of lethal embryo research. (blessedquietness.com)
  • The moratorium on human embryo research coincided with the Republican presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George Bush. (the-scientist.com)
  • Associated with new knowledge on the human genome, it could be used to facilitate genotype selection and encourage social and parental intolerance of disability or, potentially, perceived genetic defects. (who.int)
  • Last month, two research groups independently published proof that the fetal genotype - the genetic status at a given locus - can be derived for thousands of sites from samples of fetal DNA with just a 10-millilitre blood draw from a pregnant woman 2 , 3 . (nature.com)
  • Employing in vitro cell culture of inherited mitochondrial disease and an in vivo animal experimental model of low-grade inflammation (high fat feeding), we show human-derived MSCs to alter mitochondrial function. (frontiersin.org)
  • Engendering public engagement with biotechnological, stem cell and regenerative medicine research, my work engages with the impact of these life sciences on human identity, culture and society. (kathleenrogers.co.uk)
  • Exploring the different ways people might come to experience regenerative medicine, the work also reflects on how visual arts led research can improve public understanding of stem cell research. (kathleenrogers.co.uk)
  • We do not need fetal body parts from aborted babies to achieve future scientific and medical advancements," Lee said in her prepared testimony. (breitbart.com)
  • Food and beverages do not contain any aborted fetal material but may be tastier because of the nature of the research done in their development. (hli.org)
  • Hence, research and development in the field of contemporary nursing and healthcare will help raise the standard of health of entire populations. (scholarscentral.com)
  • Janssen Research & Development USA, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, is meanwhile using PER.c6, a retinal cell line from a fetus aborted in 1985. (newsweek.com)
  • Pasca, one of three stem cell investigators to receive the award, develops new approaches for studying human brain development and examining the mechanisms of neuropsychiatric disorders. (stanford.edu)
  • Pregnancy is characterized by physiologic changes in mineral metabolism, to allow calcium accretion in the fetal skeleton [ 1-3] . (who.int)
  • Although not as well researched as smoking, there is evidence that snus can cause both reversible and irreversible oral tissue damage and that consumption during pregnancy increases the risk of prematurity and intrauterine foetal mortality. (cancercentrum.se)
  • The Pro-Life Generation demands an END to the barbaric human rights abuses being committed on born and preborn human children with the cooperation of the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Magee-Women's Hospital. (studentsforlife.org)
  • Was improving and safeguarding human life the primary concern of those Wuhan lab researchers, or were they - like the NIAID-funded University of Pittsburgh researchers - operating on the conviction that sacrificing human lives may be an acceptable cost for achieving some other goal? (studentsforlife.org)
  • The brave new world of widespread prenatal genetic diagnosis has been always 'arriving' since Nature published a paper by Danish researchers Fritz Fuchs and Povl Riis in 1956, reporting the first prenatal genetic testing in humans 4 . (nature.com)
  • Results: The findings indicate that the labour performed by the researchers in the trial work involves transforming the foetal material practically, as well as culturally, from trash to treasure. (lu.se)
  • As demonstrated in the analysis, it is the human origin of the cell that makes it abjective and activates pollution discourse, when the researchers talk of their practice. (lu.se)
  • Focusing on how practical as well as emotional and cultural strategies and rationalizations of the researchers emerge in interview accounts, this study adds insights on the rationale of practically procuring, transforming and utilizing the foetal material to the already existing studies focused on the donations. (lu.se)
  • Your donation helps us continue to provide world-class research in defense of life. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • The donation of fetal tissue is not against the law and is often very cathartic for the women who choose to donate. (nysbpclc.com)
  • The Act sets a regulatory framework for the donation of organs, tissues, and other human body parts in the US. (asu.edu)
  • The NCCUSL drafted the Act in August of 1967 in an attempt to unify the US states on the topic of organ and tissue donation. (asu.edu)
  • After over 100 years of research, no therapies have been discovered or developed that require aborted fetal tissue," she continued. (breitbart.com)
  • The nationally recognized Health Sciences Tissue Bank is embedded within the Department of Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh Health Systems, providing 'rapid access to very quality tissue and biological specimen' (according to their NIH grant application ). (studentsforlife.org)
  • Asked by reporters what would happen if HHS determines contracts with fetal procurement companies did not meet those regulations, Collins said: "I guess we'll have to cross that bridge when we get to it. (breitbart.com)
  • The practice of coercion could be considered exploitative of the poor population, violating basic human rights according to Articles 3 and 4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (wikipedia.org)
  • In this paper, we discuss the current available information about the role that different phenotypes of macrophages plays after injury and during the remodelling phase in different tissue types, with particular attention to the skeletal muscle. (hindawi.com)
  • 2015. The functional foetal brain: A systematic preview of methodological factors in reporting foetal visual and auditory capacity. (babycenter.in)
  • Many mysteries continue to surround the human brain, but among the most important are how it forms and how those early weeks affect the rest of a person's life. (technologynetworks.com)
  • The National Science Foundation's Biomechanics and Mechanobiology Program recently approved a $587,853 grant to better understand the growth and folding that make each human brain unique. (technologynetworks.com)
  • Razavi first became interested in brain research in 2014, when earning his PhD at the University of Georgia. (technologynetworks.com)
  • One of the important topics with soft biological tissue is the brain," Razavi said. (technologynetworks.com)
  • There are about 100 billion neurons in a human brain, and information is transmitted through a complex network of axonal fibers that would stretch the entire 239,000 miles from the Earth to the Moon if connected end to end. (technologynetworks.com)
  • Professor Gholipour and his team have the most precise MRI and DTI for the fetal brain," Razavi said. (technologynetworks.com)
  • Dai, who conducts her own brain-related research, will offer her expertise to parse through those results, he added: "We should find a mutual language between the imaging of the fetal brain and the mechanical model. (technologynetworks.com)
  • Moreover, none of these treatments are effective at eradicating tissue cysts in the brain that can reactivate and cause encephalitis in immunocompromised persons. (iassist2012.org)
  • In CDPK1 (burden more than a million-fold when given orally at 20 mg/kg, and BKI 1553 also reduced latent brain tissue bradyzoite cyst burden by 89% when given orally at 30 mg/kg in mouse models [11, 13] (Physique 2). (iassist2012.org)
  • Effectiveness Against Brain Disease in Mice Mice had been contaminated with type II Prugniaud stress had been harvested from human being foreskin fibroblasts, handed through a 3-m pore filtration system, and 500 tachyzoites had been inoculated, inside a level of 100 L of PBS, into 4- to 5-week-old female CBA/J mice intraperitoneally. (iassist2012.org)
  • Her team plans to use advanced imaging to map human brain circuits with the goal of detecting brain circuit dysfunctions, allowing for a better understanding of emotional disorders. (stanford.edu)
  • By the fourth day, phagocytosis of contaminated tissues is well underway, and the processes of epithelization, collagen deposition, and maturation are occurring. (medscape.com)
  • Macrophages participate in all the different phases of tissue repair: they can promote phagocytosis of cellular debris and apoptotic neutrophils and produce cytokines that may help orchestrate the healing response. (hindawi.com)
  • His advocacy for using aborted baby parts in research is more reflective of the previous administration rather than the Trump administration, which has consistently advanced the sanctity of human life. (breitbart.com)
  • Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America called upon the Trump administration to replace Collins in light of his "continued support of inhumane fetal tissue research. (breitbart.com)
  • The NIH director's statements drew strong reactions from pro-life leaders, including Family Research Council president Tony Perkins, who said Collins' views are more reflective of the Obama administration. (breitbart.com)
  • But co-founder Josh Morrison hopes to show that there is broad support for human-challenge trials, which have the potential to deliver an effective coronavirus vaccine more quickly than standard trials. (nature.com)
  • The Vaccine Chart of the Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute (SCPI) lists dozens of vaccines and medical products that contain aborted fetal cell lines. (hli.org)
  • The signatories described the use of fetal cell lines as "ethically problematic," and asked Hahn "not only ensure that Americans will have access to a COVID vaccine that is free of ethical concerns, but to encourage and incentivize pharmaceutical companies to use only ethical cell lines or processes for producing vaccines. (newsweek.com)
  • Neurodegeneration and neurodegenerative diseases (including the shared mechanisms of nerve cell death that contribute to many diseases), Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia (VCID), NINDS tissue/cell resources, basic invertebrate neuromuscular junction (NMJ). (nih.gov)
  • It is seen by many in the medical and research field as an invaluable part of research for prevention of several diseases. (nysbpclc.com)
  • Indeed, several human diseases are characterized by attenuated repair responses and imbalances in the inflammatory response with increased number of infiltrating macrophages [ 3 - 5 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • The Vatican's Academy for Life issued a document in 2017 with regard to vaccines using fetal cell lines from the 1960s to make rubella, chickenpox, polio and hepatitis A vaccines. (newsweek.com)
  • Liddelow, a research scientist in neurobiology, and Pasca, a postdoctoral scholar in neonatology, were named 2017 STAT Wunderkinds by STAT News, an online biomedical news organization. (stanford.edu)
  • were harvested from human foreskin fibroblasts, exceeded through a 3-m filter, and 105 tachyzoites were inoculated in 100 L of phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) intraperitoneally into 4- to 5-week-old, 25-g female CF-1 mice. (iassist2012.org)
  • Humans could become exposed to N. caninum by accidental ingestion of oocysts shed in the feces of canid definitive hosts or following the consumption of raw or inadequately cooked meat that contains tissue cysts. (cdc.gov)
  • When he arrived at Binghamton in 2018, Razavi focused on the mechanics of human skin, doing research with Associate Professor Guy German from Watson College's Department of Biomedical Engineering. (technologynetworks.com)
  • Williams, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, has received a $3.8 million, four-year U01 grant from the National Institutes of Health Human Connectome Project. (stanford.edu)
  • The healing process consists of overlapping phases of inflammation, tissue formation, and remodelling with reorganization of vasculature and extracellular matrix. (hindawi.com)
  • Six patients had one or more underlying medical conditions (i.e., human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] infection, alcohol abuse, cancer, and diabetes mellitus). (cdc.gov)
  • On June 6, 1994, the U.S. Public Health Service convened a workshop in Bethesda, Maryland, to develop recommendations for the use of zidovudine to reduce the risk for perinatal transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). (cdc.gov)
  • These recommendations update the interim guidelines (1) developed by the U.S. Public Health Service for the use of zidovudine (ZDV) to reduce the risk for perinatal transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. (cdc.gov)
  • Worldwide, perinatal (i.e., mother-to-infant) transmission accounts for most human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections among children. (cdc.gov)
  • 1990. A pilot study on the effects of Aroclor 1254 ingestion by rhesus and cynomolgus monkeys as a model for human ingestion of PCBs. (cdc.gov)
  • The mature egg cell, observes Roger Gosden, a reproductive biologist at the University of Leeds in England, is the rarest cell in the human body. (discovermagazine.com)
  • The decedent is the individual whose organs, tissues, or body are donated. (asu.edu)
  • The fetal skin cell line that PSPs are based on was taken from an electively aborted baby whose body was donated to the University. (hli.org)
  • Cigarette smoking is highly addictive and causally linked to adverse health impacts in nearly all organs of the human body (1). (cancercentrum.se)
  • Hawkins concluded her Washington Examiner op-ed by noting, "Americans would be justified in asking whether the federal public health apparatus is acting in the interest of preserving American lives - or human life at all - when it is an active, knowing, and willing participant in killing, organ harvesting, and experimenting on the most defenseless American children. (studentsforlife.org)
  • Afterward they transplanted the thawed strips into mice that, thanks to genetic engineering, lacked an immune system and so couldn't reject the foreign tissue. (discovermagazine.com)
  • My research engages with contemporary debates in biotechnology and stem cell research and I have developed numerous works through art and science collaboration that contribute to public critical understanding and discussion of these domains. (kathleenrogers.co.uk)
  • There is strong evidence that scientific benefits can come from fetal tissue research, which can be done with an ethical framework," Collins, a physician-geneticist, said. (breitbart.com)
  • It reports on implementation of resolution WHA50.37 concerning ethical, scientific and social implications of cloning in human health. (who.int)
  • Resolution WHA50.37 requested the Director-General to clarify the potential applications of cloning procedures in human health and their ethical, scientific and social implications. (who.int)
  • In terms of existing ethical guidelines for biomedical research involving human subjects, human cloning for reproductive purposes raises concerns about risk in relation to benefit, informed consent, and accountability. (who.int)
  • NIH intends to uphold high ethical, health, and safety standards in both the conduct of the research it funds and the expenditure of public funds by its recipients. (nih.gov)
  • Regulators, doctors and patients need to prepare for the ethical, legal and practical effects of sequencing fetal genomes from mothers' blood, says Henry T. Greely. (nature.com)
  • Human fetal tissue research has gone on for decades. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • Decades-old fetal cell lines are already used to make a number of common vaccines, including against chickenpox, shingles, Hepatitis A and Rubella. (newsweek.com)
  • They emphasize the need to promote the teaching of ethics in medical education and to establish effective measures to protect developing countries from the risk of unregulated expatriate research involving human subjects. (who.int)
  • Consultative and Diagnostic Pathology, Inc., will be asking to obtain tissue specimens from your patient's medical procedure. (blessedquietness.com)
  • Fetal tissue HAS NOT produced a single medical treatment. (californiafamily.org)
  • Gosden and his colleagues explored this idea by freezing strips of ovarian tissue donated by women undergoing medical treatments. (discovermagazine.com)