• The videos showed how abortion providers made fetal tissue available to researchers, although no problems were found with the legality of the process. (wikipedia.org)
  • Officials in twelve states initiated investigations into claims made by the videos, but none found Planned Parenthood clinics to have sold tissue for profit as alleged by CMP and other anti-abortion groups. (wikipedia.org)
  • Live Science interviewed a legal expert who affirmed that the key legal issue is the woman's consent and the separation of her decision to commit the abortion and donate the fetal organs. (texasrighttolife.com)
  • Gu acknowledges to Live Science that the issue of abortion makes this kind of "research" difficult, because many people object to abortion in the first place. (texasrighttolife.com)
  • I note this concern doesn't have an analog in the abortion debate, where the fetus who may receive anesthesia is about to be killed anyway. (secularprolife.org)
  • In the video, Nathanson narrates ultrasound footage of an abortion of a twelve-week-old fetus, claiming that the fetus opened its mouth in what Nathanson calls a silent scream during the procedure. (asu.edu)
  • Videos shot by members of an anti-abortion group posing as fetal tissue middlemen "absolutely shock the conscience," said McConnell at a news conference . (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Researchers may accept and/or use human fetal tissue for transplantation into a relative of the donor or other individual designated by the donor (i.e., donor-designated recipient) only if the tissue is obtained from a spontaneous abortion or stillbirth. (umn.edu)
  • Abortion critics have interpreted this to mean that abortion providers can't make a profit on the sale of fetal organs. (powerlineblog.com)
  • The virtue of intact organs is recognized, and abortion methods are tailored to preserve them to the extent possible, given the necessity of killing the baby. (powerlineblog.com)
  • So Planned Parenthood instead makes adjustments to the abortion to get "fully intact" fetuses - in the process running the risk of babies being born alive. (lifesitenews.com)
  • A neglected subset of the abortion holocaust, the victims of fetal tissue research make us so very uncomfortable that, in the name of showing a unified face to the world, the pro-life movement focused instead on the big picture, the easily understandable messages: "Abortion Kills Babies" and "Love them both. (avoicefortruth.com)
  • Why, in a year when millions will receive abortion-derived vaccines, did we not remember the victims of fetal tissue harvesting, mourn them, and call for ethical alternatives? (avoicefortruth.com)
  • The National Abortion Federation literature blandly describes partial-birth abortion as "a surgical technique performed in some later abortions in which the fetus is removed intact. (str.org)
  • Dr. Ervine Nichols, spokesman for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, ACOG (an organization noted for its support of abortion) said, "We are unaware of any evidence of any kind that would substantiate a claim that pain is perceived by a fetus. (theinterim.com)
  • While Americans may be used to hearing pro-lifers beat the warning drum on abortion groups harvesting baby bodies and selling them for research, (who hasn't heard of the lawsuit against David Daleiden, who exposed Planned Parenthood haggling over baby lungs and livers at dinner parties? (thefederalist.com)
  • The fact techs are unable to identify the sex of aborted babies is no surprise to those familiar with the barbaric nature of abortion procedures, which require clinic staff to piece together mangled remains of babies after their limbs and organs are torn apart. (thefederalist.com)
  • Within a week of the Supreme Court striking down Texas' HB 2 bill for creating an "undue burden" on women seeking abortion, the state's Health and Human Services Commission proposed new rules that would require that all fetal remains from abortions be cremated or buried. (mediamatters.org)
  • Earlier this month, on March 9th 2022 , pro-life activists from several organizations, including Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU), Pro-Life San Francisco, and Rehumanize International, accessed the fetal organ bank at the University of Washington School of Medicine which PAAU claims is the nation's largest fetal organ bank. (studentsforlife.org)
  • Proud," it turns out, of putting women through riskier abortion procedures to get better, more valuable baby organs. (lifenews.com)
  • While the country's abortion industry continues to come after David Daleiden for exposing the black market for tiny organs, the real crimes are being laid out in sickening detail. (lifenews.com)
  • If you have a fetus with an intact head and an intact body and intact extremities, that is something that would indicate that child was born alive, and then had their organs cut out of them, or that that child was the victim of an illegal partial-birth abortion. (lifenews.com)
  • Besides, the fetus is a nonsentient organism incapable of feeling pain during the various types of abortion procedures, so abortion is no big deal. (ewtn.com)
  • This paper gives an Islamic perspective on some of these advances, including abortion, in vitro fertilization, genetic engineering, cloning and stem cell research. (who.int)
  • We report the results of pathologic examinations of 2 fetuses from women in Colombia with Zika virus infection during pregnancy that revealed severe central nervous system defects and potential associated abnormalities of the eye, spleen, and placenta. (cdc.gov)
  • Although Zika virus infections typically lead to comparatively benign symptoms relative to those of other arboviruses ( 2 ), in May 2016, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded that congenital Zika virus infection was the cause of the severe central nervous system (CNS) defects observed in fetuses and newborns of women infected with Zika virus during pregnancy ( 3 ). (cdc.gov)
  • This report describes 2 fetuses examined after pregnancy termination who had severe CNS defects attributed to maternal Zika virus infection. (cdc.gov)
  • Quickening, the point at which a pregnant woman can first feel the movements of the growing embryo or fetus, has long been considered a pivotal moment in pregnancy. (asu.edu)
  • During a healthy pregnancy, numerous immunosuppressive processes take place that allow the allograft fetus to thrive under exposure to humoral and cellular components of the maternal immune system. (frontiersin.org)
  • Breakdown of immune tolerance may result in sterile inflammation and cause adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preeclampsia, a vascular disease of the pregnancy with unpredictable course and symptoms from several organs. (frontiersin.org)
  • Immunogenetic susceptibility to preeclampsia may have effect in the early stages of pregnancy whereby through loss of maternal tolerance toward the fetal components, the process of placentation is impaired. (frontiersin.org)
  • The recent release of the pregnant female phantom series, and its incorporation into the MIRDOSE 3 computer software, has made possible the estimation of absorbed doses from radionuclides in the body to the fetus in early pregnancy and at 3, 6, and 9 mo gestation. (nih.gov)
  • During normal pregnancy, increases in whole-body temperature of up to 4.5 degrees F (2.5 C) are presumed to be safe, and research suggests that elevations of tissue temperature up to 1.8 - 2.7 degrees F (1.0 to 1.5 C) caused by ultrasound are also safe. (thehealthyskeptic.org)
  • A recent study suggests that heating in late-pregnancy fetal tissues exposed to normal pulsed and continuous Doppler ultrasound may be higher than what is regarded as safe: 2.5 to 10.4 degrees F (1.4 - 5.8 C) respectively. (thehealthyskeptic.org)
  • The rules would apply to all abortions at any period of gestation, even though more than 90 percent of abortions in Texas occur in the first trimester, and as the Houston Chronicle described, "within those first 12 weeks of pregnancy, the fetus ranges from the size of a poppy seed to roughly the size of a lime. (mediamatters.org)
  • The placenta is a temporary organ attached to the wall of the uterus during pregnancy. (sgstemcell.com)
  • The placenta is a temporary organ that presents a natural barrier between mother and fetus during the entire pregnancy. (nature.com)
  • A new study by CDC is the first to show Zika virus RNA replicating in brain tissues of infants with microcephaly who later died and in placentas of women who suffered pregnancy losses after Zika infection during pregnancy. (cdc.gov)
  • Based on preliminary data from the U.S. Zika Pregnancy Registry, among 442 completed pregnancies, 6% resulted in a fetus or infant with evidence of a Zika virus-related birth defect, primarily microcephaly with brain abnormalities, whereas among women with possible Zika virus infection during the first trimester, 11% had a fetus or infant with a birth defect. (cdc.gov)
  • The Organization of Teratology Information Specialists is a network of risk-assessment counselors in the United States and Canada who specialize in researching and communicating the risks associated with drug exposures in pregnancy. (medscape.com)
  • The Placenta is an organ of pregnancy that provides nutrition, excretory functions and oxygen to the fetus. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Placenta is a fetal organ of pregnancy responsible for providing nutrition and oxygen to the fetus as well as excretory functions.1 Placenta can be attached to the endometrium anteriorly, posteriorly, fundally and in the lower uterine segments. (bvsalud.org)
  • Smoking during pregnancy robs the developing fetus of oxygen and can cause low birth weight, preterm birth, and fetal death. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The new policy bans testing HIV therapies on fetal tissue taken from elective abortions. (queerty.com)
  • altering abortions in order to harvest valuable organs intact , joking about " war torn " dismembered babies, and even alluding to " intact fetal cadavers . (texasrighttolife.com)
  • The latest shocking video records a former StemExpress technician, Holly O'Donnell, discussing how organs were harvested without the consent of mothers undergoing abortions, which contradicts Planned Parenthood's carefully crafted PR in the wake of the scandal. (texasrighttolife.com)
  • If the proposed research involves aborted fetal tissue, the application to FTR will include a written explanation of the need for human fetal tissue from induced abortions. (umn.edu)
  • ABP will procure human fetal tissue from tissue procurement organizations or clinics outside Minnesota that operate in compliance with federal law and applicable state laws and certify they do not obtain tissue from abortions performed in Minnesota. (umn.edu)
  • The creation of a successful human fetal cell line is not a neat science: it may require dozens of abortions. (avoicefortruth.com)
  • Thus, at least 99 elective abortions were reported in the research and production of the rubella vaccine. (avoicefortruth.com)
  • When an ABR employee reassured the FDA they were working with doctors who performed late-term abortions, he admitted some tissue was unusable from a procedure that injects a poison called digoxin into the baby, destroying its cells and tissues. (thefederalist.com)
  • The research arm of the Susan B. Anthony List also found that, "If Planned Parenthood were included for comparison, it would rank sixth in the world in number of abortions carried out annually. (newsbusters.org)
  • Texas Proposes New Rules Requiring That All Fetal Remains From Abortions Be Cremated Or Buried. (mediamatters.org)
  • Currently in Texas, fetal remains from abortions are disposed of "in sanitary sewers and landfills for medical waste" -- in a manner similar to other biological medical material, such as "organs removed during surgeries. (mediamatters.org)
  • CMP alleged that the videos were evidence of Planned Parenthood engaging in the illegal sale of fetal tissue. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is illegal to profit from the sale of fetal tissue, though not illegal for expenses involved in its collection to be reimbursed. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • But even those inclined to support Planned Parenthood say that the allegations around the sale of fetal tissue may represent a turning point. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • In January 2016, a Texas grand jury chartered to investigate Planned Parenthood found no wrongdoing by Planned Parenthood but instead indicted CMP founder David Daleiden and member Sandra Merritt for creating and using false government IDs and attempting to purchase fetal tissue. (wikipedia.org)
  • Republican calls to defund Planned Parenthood over its alleged handling of fetal tissue for research are louder than ever. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Those videos purport to show Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of tissue from aborted fetuses in strikingly casual terms. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Asked if the goal was to eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood, fetal tissue research or both, David Daleiden, the head of the group that took the videos, said in a statement: "The goal of our investigation is to reveal the truth about Planned Parenthood's trafficking and sale of aborted baby body parts for profit, which is illegal and unethical. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • But while the tie to fetal tissue is new, the fight to separate Planned Parenthood from its federal funding is, in fact, older than the 26-year-old Daleiden. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • McAleer, co-author of the forthcoming book Gosnell: The Untold Story of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer , noted that the report supports the findings of the undercover videos the Center for Medical Progress released last summer showing Planned Parenthood officials haggling over the prices of fetal body parts. (christianpost.com)
  • In both, representatives of CMP are negotiating to buy fetal tissue in the form of intact organs from Planned Parenthood. (powerlineblog.com)
  • A hidden-camera video released last week purported to show that Planned Parenthood illegally sells tissue from aborted fetuses. (powerlineblog.com)
  • This video, like the first one, leaves no doubt whatsoever that Planned Parenthood is in the business of selling aborted babies' organs to private firms engaged in research. (powerlineblog.com)
  • Now that its trafficking in body parts has been exposed, Planned Parenthood claims this commerce is little short of heroic: the body parts are used in ground-breaking, life-saving medical research. (powerlineblog.com)
  • Novogenix is one of the biomedical firms that Planned Parenthood works with to harvest fetal tissue, and then sell it to researchers. (lifesitenews.com)
  • As Melissa Farrell, Director of Research at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, admits: "Yeah, and so if we alter our process, and we are able to obtain intact fetal cadavers, then we can make it part of the budget, that any dissections are this, and splitting the specimens into different shipments is this. (lifesitenews.com)
  • Until earlier this month, StemExpress, a biotech company in northern California, was a " partner " with Planned Parenthood to obtain aborted baby parts in the name of research. (newsbusters.org)
  • After she talked about lab techs having "meltdowns" working with "fetal tissue," an actor asked Dyer about support from Planned Parenthood in her work. (newsbusters.org)
  • StemExpress, one of the tissue companies that works with Planned Parenthood, is cutting its ties with the women's health organization after a series of sting videos that have prompted congressional inquiries," reported Politico , August 14. (newsbusters.org)
  • In reporting on the potential new rules, Fox 7, an Austin, TX, Fox News-owned station , allowed an anti-choice activist , Carol Everett, to baselessly speculate that current methods for handling fetal remains are unsanitary. (mediamatters.org)
  • Live Science reports that "in the new study, Gu and his colleagues obtained human fetal kidneys from StemExpress, a Placerville, California-based company that supplies researchers with tissue from deceased adults and fetuses. (texasrighttolife.com)
  • University researchers ("researchers") may conduct research on the transplantation of human fetal tissue or cell lines derived from human fetal tissue ("human fetal tissue") for therapeutic purposes only in accordance with applicable federal and state laws and regulations and University policies and procedures. (umn.edu)
  • Researchers must apply for approval from the FTR for the use of human fetal tissue and apply for approval from the IRB to conduct human fetal tissue transplantation research. (umn.edu)
  • Researchers must either: 1) obtain the human fetal tissue through ABP or 2) obtain approval from ABP for the source of human fetal tissue supplied by a research sponsor, collaborator or other source. (umn.edu)
  • Subsequently, the researchers put their protocol to the test using E16.5 mouse fetuses. (news-medical.net)
  • In the world of fetal tissue research, researchers and abortionists work together to obtain viable tissue. (avoicefortruth.com)
  • A baby who is born dead," Dr. James Dobson notes, "is of less value to researchers because brain tissue and other organs quickly deteriorate when deprived of oxygen. (str.org)
  • Swiss researchers have used skin constructed from fetal skin cells to treat eight children with burns. (news-medical.net)
  • The researchers then placed fetal skin cell constructs on the children's lesions and bandaged them. (news-medical.net)
  • By just over 2 weeks, the researchers found that all the children had their wounds closed and no child needed traditional grafting, because the fetal constructs alone had closed their wounds. (news-medical.net)
  • The case brought the issue of fetal rights versus pregnant womenÕs rights to light. (asu.edu)
  • The first credit for forcing the issue of fetal pain out into the open in North America, belongs to President Ronald Reagan. (theinterim.com)
  • So I would be opposed to the idea of creating embryos by mixing sperm and eggs together and then experimenting on the outcome of that, purely to understand research questions. (firstthings.com)
  • When Collins acknowledges the immorality of research done on embryos created for just that purpose, he implicitly concedes that it is the research itself-as the telos of the embryos' creation-that is immoral. (firstthings.com)
  • 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)
  • The 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade was a significant event in the story of fetal personhood-the story of whether embryos and fetuses are legal persons. (asu.edu)
  • People have been talking about embryos, fetuses, and their status in science, the law, and society for centuries. (asu.edu)
  • In Vitro Fertilization - some of the embryos used in human stem cells research were initially created for infertility purposes through in vitro fertilization procedures. (orthodoxwiki.org)
  • Embryos and fetuses were extracted via a ventral incision on the abdominal and uterine walls of one pregnant doe each day after euthanization with thiopental sodium at the dose of 31 mg/kg body weight intravenously. (ac.ir)
  • Members of CMP posed as representatives of a non-existent company called Biomax Procurement Services, presenting themselves as potential buyers of fetal tissue. (wikipedia.org)
  • In a less-edited version of the first video, PPFA staff repeatedly state that the organization makes no money from tissue donations, and that the $30-100 charge only covers procurement costs. (wikipedia.org)
  • The videos show some of Planned Parenthood's top staff discussing compensation for the procurement of fetal body parts (Lamborghini, anyone? (texasrighttolife.com)
  • One of the oldest fetal tissue procurement firms, the company makes millions every year by harvesting organs like lungs, livers, eyeballs, and brains from aborted babies and re-selling them at a profit. (thefederalist.com)
  • A press release by CMP accompanying the video stressed, "Feticidal chemicals like digoxin cannot be used to kill the fetus in a tissue procurement case, so a fetus delivered intact for organ harvesting is likely to be a born-alive infant. (newsbusters.org)
  • Schematic representation of the maternal-fetal interface and its immunologicalplayers. (frontiersin.org)
  • At that time, maternal/fetal ultrasonography was being refined, and for the first time, we were diagnosing birth defects in utero . (medscape.com)
  • As a matter of fact, of all mammalian organs the placenta shows the greatest variation in terms of anatomy. (hindawi.com)
  • There is no consensus on the significance of cavitation effects in human fetal tissue, but some evidence suggests that mammalian tissue may contain microbubbles that are susceptible to cavitation effects. (thehealthyskeptic.org)
  • Experimentation on, or using the organs or tissues from, a human or other mammalian conceptus in the postembryonic period, after the major structures have been outlined. (bvsalud.org)
  • But when patients can't communicate (as in the case for fetuses, preterm infants, neonates, and older patients with communication impairments), how do we determine whether they are in pain? (secularprolife.org)
  • A significant number of studies have involved functional and multiple-omics studies of reproductive tissues and organs in relation to the various reproductive health issues including endometritis, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), recurrent miscarriage, pre-eclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR), preterm birth, and various age-associated reproductive disorders. (frontiersin.org)
  • We could effectively control preterm labor after the fetal surgery, although that is by no means a solved problem clinically. (medscape.com)
  • Although the full spectrum of fetal effects of congenital Zika virus infection is not known, Zika virus has been shown to cross the placental barrier, grow in brain tissue of fetuses, infect progenitor neural cells, and increase neural cell death or attenuate their growth ( 4 , 5 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Observed CNS abnormalities include microcephaly, ventriculomegaly, cerebral calcifications, absent corpus callosum, and atrophy of the cerebellum and brainstem in fetuses with congenital Zika virus infection ( 6 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Reproductive risk of toxicant exposure includes fetal effects, especially congenital anomalies. (medscape.com)
  • Congenital syphilis causes fetal or perinatal death in 40% of the infants affected. (cdc.gov)
  • These fetuses had such problems as a huge congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation of the lung, lower urinary tract obstruction , congenital diaphragmatic hernia , very large sacrococcygeal teratoma, twin/twin transfusion syndrome, and so forth. (medscape.com)
  • In order to better appreciate the role of stem cell research in reproductive medicine, there is a need to understand the critical biological principles of stem cell research and its potential applications to medicine. (jcpa.org)
  • While there is a great deal published on the potential medical applications of stem cell research to treat or cure diseases such as diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, cancer, and heart disease, much less has been published on the future impact of stem cell research in reproductive medicine. (jcpa.org)
  • Female reproductive health includes the entire reproductive cycle, beginning with ovarian and endometrial function and continuing through implantation and fetal growth. (frontiersin.org)
  • The aim of the current Research Topic is to cover promising, recent, and novel research trends in the field of female reproductive health and how disruptions lead to various diseases. (frontiersin.org)
  • Powerful advancements in molecular genetic manipulation and assisted reproductive technolo-gies are employed during embryo and fetal development, and these efforts have had profound impact on animal production worldwide. (ac.ir)
  • We followed the mother monkeys after they returned to the breeding colony to show that doing the fetal surgical intervention did not impair their future reproductive capacity. (medscape.com)
  • However, there are several obstacles when working with placental tissue, since it contains large amounts of lipids and glycogen [ 15 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • On the other hand, the placental tissue sheds into the maternal circulation and must be adequately identified and phagocytized by the maternal immune system. (frontiersin.org)
  • Today's video may be the most disturbing of the seven videos exposing Planned Parenthood's fetal body part trade. (lifesitenews.com)
  • I have been working to isolate segments from the 4th video in the Center For Medical Progress videos about Planned Parenthood's role in fetal tissue harvesting. (blogspot.com)
  • Children of God for Life has publicized the use of fetal cells taken from aborted babies used in the development of vaccines. (texasrighttolife.com)
  • Last week, Breitbart highlighted one of the other uses of fetal organs "donated" to scientific research: Organs of aborted babies are implanted into rats in order to experiment with growing organs for the possibility of transplant to children and even adults. (texasrighttolife.com)
  • Perhaps, he says, the practice will seem "more palatable" if the organs of aborted babies grown in rodents and pigs can only be transplanted into infants and children. (texasrighttolife.com)
  • The Senate Judiciary Committee has published a report detailing the scope of aborted baby body parts profiteering from its investigation into biotech firms that were caught illegally selling tissue from aborted babies last year. (christianpost.com)
  • 2. There are other times when aborted babies are born with beating hearts before organ harvesting. (lifesitenews.com)
  • As if these casual orders weren't horrific enough, more emails confirm that the FDA bought organs of babies who were aborted well after 20 weeks gestation, after the time a baby usually can survive outside the womb. (thefederalist.com)
  • In March this year, a federal court ordered the agency to release records it withheld about purchasing organs of aborted babies, saying it found "reason to question" the transactions violated federal law. (thefederalist.com)
  • For example, the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania was outed last year to be conducting something akin to " Frankenstein research " as the university scalped aborted babies and grafted their scalps onto lab rats. (studentsforlife.org)
  • For further information on the pain that preborn babies feel as they are killed, see Chapter 75, "Preborns: Fetal Pain. (ewtn.com)
  • As pediatric surgeons, Dr Harrison and I were frustrated, taking care of babies with life-threatening malformations that caused such progressive and severe organ damage before birth that the babies didn't survive. (medscape.com)
  • An open letter to President Reagan, dated February 13, 1984, stated that modern advances in knowledge and technology ("real time ultrasonography, fetoscopy, study of the fetal EKG - electrocardiogram and fetal EEG - electroencephalogram") have proved beyond any scientific doubt that the preborn child can feel pain. (theinterim.com)
  • As it turns out, selling fetal skins, brains, and other body parts is an extremely profitable endeavor. (christianpost.com)
  • The sale of various baby organs-livers and brains, for example-is discussed in the most callous manner, over lunch, mixed with business and social chatter. (powerlineblog.com)
  • The court's decision found that the U.S. government bought second-trimester livers, thymuses, brains, eyes, and lungs for hundreds of dollars apiece from ABR, stating ABR could collect "over $2,000 on a single fetus it purchased … for $60" and "the federal government participated in this potentially illicit trade for years. (thefederalist.com)
  • CDC scientists found Zika virus RNA persisted in fetal brains and in placentas for more than seven months after the pregnant women contracted Zika. (cdc.gov)
  • In the undercover video , CEO Cate Dyer (known as Doe 12), freely talks about the great demand for "raw fetal tissue" and that the "insanely fragile" neural or brain tissue is best shipped in a "whole calvarium," or head, whereupon Daleiden says, "Just make sure the eyes are closed. (lifenews.com)
  • Beginning with Aristotle, quickening divided the developmental stages of embryo and fetus. (asu.edu)
  • Biokinetic data for these radiopharmaceuticals were gathered from various documents and other resources, and the absorbed doses to the embryo and fetus at these different stages of gestation from radiations originating within the mother's organs were estimated. (nih.gov)
  • One of the videos includes an image of a stillborn fetus, published in the Daily Mail in January 2014, used without the permission of the woman in the photo, and in a way that falsely suggests that the stillborn was aborted. (wikipedia.org)
  • Whether and how the bodies of children lost to miscarriage or those who are stillborn can be used in medical research is a separate issue that requires careful consideration. (texasrighttolife.com)
  • ABP also may accept donations of human fetal tissue obtained from a stillborn infant, or an embryo or fetus that died of natural causes in utero as authorized under applicable state laws. (umn.edu)
  • Blood flow to the fetal lungs decreased progressively with hypoxia. (nih.gov)
  • When faced with lack of nutrients and hypoxia, the first fetal adaptation is a decrease in cell division rate. (bvsalud.org)
  • Immunological incompatibility between mother and fetus is strongly indicated in preeclampsia. (frontiersin.org)
  • University personnel ("personnel") may not perform research on a human fetus which meets the definition of a living human conceptus under Minnesota law (shows the presence of evidence of life, such as movement, heart or respiratory activity, or the presence of electroencephalographic or electrocardiographic activity), except to protect the life or health of the fetus. (umn.edu)
  • The purpose of obstetrics is to maintain the health of the pregnant woman and to ensure optimal health of the fetus. (medscape.com)
  • While the goal of treating infants and children who would benefit from an organ transplant is admirable, the means Gu suggests are unquestionably wrong. (texasrighttolife.com)
  • The human placenta is a difficult tissue to work with using proteomic technology since it contains large amounts of lipids and glycogen. (hindawi.com)
  • Hence, particle translocation to the human placenta following inhalation under real-life conditions is insufficiently studied while being essential in understanding the effects on fetal health 24 . (nature.com)
  • On December 6, 2021, The Linacre Quarterly published Dr. Bridget Thill's dissertation " Fetal Pain in the First Trimester . (secularprolife.org)
  • A 1997 study found that significant temperature increases can occur at or near to bone in the fetus from the second trimester, if the beam is held stationary for more than 30 seconds in some pulsed Doppler applications. (thehealthyskeptic.org)
  • In The Embryology of Behaviour, The Beginnings of the Human Mind, Dr. Gesell wrote, '…and so by the close of the first trimester the fetus is a sentient, moving being. (theinterim.com)
  • Plausible physiologic and biologic mechanisms: For example, positing that a major change in organ formation was due to late-trimester pesticide exposure would not be plausible because organogenesis would have been completed before the exposures. (medscape.com)
  • The risk of inducing thermal effects is greater in the second and third trimesters, when fetal bone is intercepted by the ultrasound beam and significant temperature increase can occur in the fetal brain. (thehealthyskeptic.org)
  • The women were in their second and third trimesters, and fetal gender distribution was 55 males and 45 females. (bvsalud.org)
  • When modern sophisticated equipment is used at maximum operating settings for Doppler examinations, the acoustic outputs are sufficient to produce obvious biological effects, e.g. significant temperature increase in tissue or visible motion of particles due to radiation pressure streaming effects. (thehealthyskeptic.org)
  • Professor Hohlfeld says they have demonstrated that fetal skin is a substitute for biological skin and can provide burned patients with a very high quality of skin in a short time, with no additional grafting techniques. (news-medical.net)
  • buy or sell human fetal tissue, except reasonable payments are permitted associated with the transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control or storage of human fetal tissue. (umn.edu)
  • The term "valuable consideration" does not include reasonable payments associated with the transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control, or storage of human fetal tissue. (powerlineblog.com)
  • Reduced food intake occurs approximately two weeks after mating and is thought to occur in association with fetal implantation at about day 15 postconception. (carnivora.ca)
  • The medical community has widely characterized the practice as vital to disease research since the fetal tissue can be used to mimic a variety of cells found in the human body. (queerty.com)
  • Collins recently announced that this year will be his last at the NIH, bringing to a close twelve years of tireless public service in charge of the largest biomedical research body in the world. (firstthings.com)
  • 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)
  • Contrary to popular belief, stem cells are present in the human body throughout life and are found in many adult organs. (jcpa.org)
  • In a Tuesday column on Townhall , McAleer recounted that matching up documents and invoices obtained by the Senate reveals that one employee of Advanced Biosciences Resources saw hundreds of dollars spent on just one fetal cadaver for an assortment of body parts two years ago. (christianpost.com)
  • In the fetus, stem cells in developing tissue give rise to the multiple specialized cell types that make up the human body. (orthodoxwiki.org)
  • Adult stem cells give the body its ability to repair and replace the cells and tissues of some organs. (orthodoxwiki.org)
  • This characterization of payments is also convenient under state laws, many of which prohibit the sale of organs or other body parts, and include gametes within that definition. (thefacultylounge.org)
  • With its head still in the birth canal and its legs, arms and the rest of its body dangling on the outside of the mother, the brain tissue is extracted, usually while the baby is still alive. (str.org)
  • The Austin American Statesman quoted Gov. Abbott's spokesperson saying the proposed rules are meant "to protect the unborn and prevent the sale of baby body parts," even though a spokesperson for the Department of State Health Services said the rules wouldn't apply to fetal tissue used in research. (mediamatters.org)
  • When they found the freezer, they were horrified to see rows of fetal body parts and whole bodies stuffed into labelled brown paper bags. (studentsforlife.org)
  • This, in turn, enhances longevity and quality of life since cells, tissues, and organs are empowered to keep the body in its finest health status. (sgstemcell.com)
  • Throughout fetal life, tissues and organs of the body are found at a critical period of development which coincides with the period of rapid cell division. (bvsalud.org)
  • end point is a decrease in fetal/pup body weights observed after oral, dermal, and inhalation exposures of dams to NMP. (cdc.gov)
  • Oral, 90- and decrements in fetal/pup body weights following exposures to day exposures of rats and mice to NMP result in decrements in NMP vapor. (cdc.gov)
  • The HEC is much higher than recently reduced fetal/pup body weights have been identified as the developed internationally recognized OELs for NMP of 10-20 most sensitive end points (OECD, 2007). (cdc.gov)
  • Smoking tobacco is harmful to almost every organ in the body. (msdmanuals.com)
  • According to an article on Live Science , "The research shows that it is feasible to remove a kidney from an aborted human fetus, and implant the organ into a rat, where the kidney can grow to a larger size. (texasrighttolife.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)
  • Stem cell research is, in part, a quest to understand cellular differentiation, the process by which a human being develops from one fertilized cell into a multicellular organism composed of over 200 different cell types - for example muscle, nerve, blood cell, or kidney. (jcpa.org)
  • Which Cosmetics Use Fetal Cells? (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)
  • Similarly, when the fertilized egg divides from two cells into four cells, each of these four cells has the potential to individually form a human fetus. (jcpa.org)
  • However, by the time the fertilized egg divides into 8 or 16 cells something changes and each respective cell, if separated, no longer has the potential to create a fetus. (jcpa.org)
  • The stem cells derived from the inner mass of a blastocyst lack the ability to form a fetus when implanted into a woman, but are self-renewing and can be maintained for long periods of time in the laboratory as undifferentiated stem cells. (jcpa.org)
  • The destruction of the pre-embryo has been the critical issue in the U.S. behind imposing limits on federal government-sponsored research in embryonic stem cells. (jcpa.org)
  • At 8 weeks of gestation, the trophoblast cells invade from the placenta into the maternal tissue and into the uterine arteries. (frontiersin.org)
  • Trophoblast cells (fetal) and endothelial cells (maternal) express sFlt1. (frontiersin.org)
  • Mind you, this involves actual human hearts, not 3-D printed replacements, or bits of heart tissue grown in labs from human stem cells. (michaelmcgaulley.net)
  • Not long ago here we posted about some research in Lund, Sweden attempting to rejuvenate blood (of mice) by reprogramming stem cells. (michaelmcgaulley.net)
  • In REMEDY , a researcher tries to implant brain cells from a human fetus into a young chimp. (michaelmcgaulley.net)
  • Cells of the same type make tissues, and tissues make organs. (orthodoxwiki.org)
  • In some adult tissues, such as bone marrow, muscle, and brain, discrete populations of adult stem cells generate replacement cells. (orthodoxwiki.org)
  • While both types of stem cells are very important for biomedical research, the use of embryonic stem cells raises most of the bioethical issues. (orthodoxwiki.org)
  • In adults, the remaining stem cells only differentiate into cell types specific to the tissue in which they reside (some recent studies seem to prove the contrary. (orthodoxwiki.org)
  • They are derived from the primordial germ cells, which occur in a specific part of the embryo/fetus called the gonadal ridge. (orthodoxwiki.org)
  • Adult stem cells are rare, and their origin in mature tissue is not yet completely understood. (orthodoxwiki.org)
  • Adult stem cells are dispersed in tissues throughout the mature organism and behave very differently depending on the local environment. (orthodoxwiki.org)
  • Some recent studies focus on the plasticity of the adult stem cells, which is the ability to differentiate in specialized cells of another tissue. (orthodoxwiki.org)
  • We also use human stem cells as a test-tube model to study the process of heart formation and to create new human heart tissues and organs from these stem cells. (stanford.edu)
  • To meet this need, Patrick Hohlfeld of the University Hospital of Lausanne , and his colleagues developed a bank of fetal skin cells from one, small donation of fetal skin, to improve healing of such intense burns. (news-medical.net)
  • He says this technique provided complete treatment without auto-grafting, showing that fetal skin cells might be used to treat burns and eventually acute and chronic wounds of other types. (news-medical.net)
  • Hohlfeld says the therapeutic effects of this simple technique, along with the simplicity in application, suggests fetal skin cells could have great potential in tissue engineering. (news-medical.net)
  • A reduction in the number of cells, the change in structure and functioning of organs, permanent change in DNA methylation, and in gene expression have also been considered to be molecular mechanisms responsible for fetal programming 1 . (bvsalud.org)
  • Even short periods of malnutrition can permanently reduce the number of cells in certain organs during the fetal stage of development, causing changes in the distribution of cell types during metabolic activity, as well as throughout the organs´ structure 2 . (bvsalud.org)
  • Live Science quotes Cate Dyer, founder of StemExpress, who claims that all donors are fully informed about the possible uses of the baby organs they are donating. (texasrighttolife.com)
  • During the development of toxicological profiles, Minimal Risk Levels (MRLs) are derived when reliable and sufficient data exist to identify the target organ(s) of effect or the most sensitive health effect(s) for a specific duration for a given route of exposure. (cdc.gov)
  • Similarly, fetal exposure to pain raises significant concerns about resultant long-term health issues. (secularprolife.org)
  • Fetal development is a critical window of exposure-related susceptibility because the etiology of diseases in adulthood may have a fetal origin and may be attributed to adverse effects of in utero environmental exposures. (nature.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)
  • 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)
  • Proteomics is a research field undergoing rapid development, especially in regards to the methods being used. (hindawi.com)
  • It is supposed that they are somehow set aside during fetal development and restrained from differentiating. (orthodoxwiki.org)
  • While the effect of this force is not fully understood, research suggests that it may change cell permeability and have adverse effects on both early and late prenatal and postnatal development. (thehealthyskeptic.org)
  • We believe that by understanding the mechanisms regulating the formation of the heart during fetal development we can then apply these principles to understand the causes of adult heart diseases such as heart attack and heart failure. (stanford.edu)
  • Li et al, Development 2019) as well as the developing cardiac conduction system at embryonic day 16.5 of mouse development (Goodyer et al, Circulation Research 2019). (stanford.edu)
  • It is concerned with the sequential stages of embryonic and fetal development, beginning with fertilization. (ac.ir)
  • It is essential to understand the effect of medications and to know the point in fetal development when drugs are most toxic and which fetal organs are most susceptible. (medscape.com)
  • Environmental processes that influence the tendency for disease in adulthood appear to occur throughout the peri conceptual, fetal and infantile phases. (bvsalud.org)
  • Blood flows to neural tissues (cerebrum, cerebellum, brain stem), heart, and the adrenals increased in inverse relation to arterial O2 content. (nih.gov)
  • an ultrasound at 15 weeks of gestation demonstrated absence of the cranial vault (exencephaly) with brain tissue loss, including absence of cerebral hemispheres (anencephaly sequence). (cdc.gov)
  • The fetus was at 20 weeks of gestation when evaluated. (cdc.gov)
  • The fetus was evaluated and Zika virus diagnosis confirmed at 27 weeks of gestation. (cdc.gov)
  • Bone heats faster more than soft tissue, which in turn heats more than fluid. (thehealthyskeptic.org)
  • This in turn can heating of sensory organs incased in bone. (thehealthyskeptic.org)
  • Currently, there is no standardized workflow for reliable separation and intensity-based visualization of skeletal tissues , allowing simultaneous isotropic 3D imaging of cartilage and bone with similar quality. (news-medical.net)
  • Their innovative approach involves selectively labeling the cartilage matrix, providing adequate contrast compared to other tissues for automated visualization and segmentation while preserving the bone mineral. (news-medical.net)
  • However, a challenge they faced was the overlap in X-Ray attenuation between fetal bone and cartilage. (news-medical.net)
  • Consistent with the company's prior public statements, StemExpress has never requested, received or provided to a researcher an 'intact fetus. (newsbusters.org)
  • Our finding that BC particles accumulate on the fetal side of the placenta suggests that ambient particulates could be transported towards the fetus and represents a potential mechanism explaining the detrimental health effects of pollution from early life onwards. (nature.com)
  • Further research is needed into the mechanisms and quantitative aspects of the placental transfer of many radiopharmaceuticals. (nih.gov)
  • My use of the term 'intact cases' is a medical term of art that refers solely to 'intact livers,' as there was absolutely no mention of 'intact fetuses' at any point," Dyer said in a company release, reported by Free Beacon. (newsbusters.org)
  • On the other hand, we have what are called protomorphogens, or extracts of tissues from glands such as adrenal, pancreas, pituitary, thyroid, and ovary, which can be taken orally to help support those particular tissues in humans. (healthy.net)
  • 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)
  • The fetal tissues including the placenta must be protected from activation of the maternal immune system. (frontiersin.org)
  • Israeli policy is based on the belief that such a pre-embyro does not confer personhood and that many therapeutic applications can be derived from such research. (jcpa.org)
  • The authors report that several million skin constructs (9x12 cm) suitable for therapeutic use, could be produced from the single organ donation. (news-medical.net)
  • One month earlier, Collins's NIH had approved a research grant requested by University of Pittsburgh scientists who desired to graft the scalps of aborted fetuses onto rats and mice. (firstthings.com)
  • Biochemical changes in brain and other tissues of young adult female mice from fluoride in their drinking water. (fluoridealert.org)
  • Furthermore, while there is concern for the mother's consent, the issue of the actual organ donor's consent is never addressed: The child being dismembered in the mother's womb cannot give consent. (texasrighttolife.com)
  • But if you're trying to get quality fetal tissue, you probably don't want to be tearing the unborn baby apart in his mother's womb. (lifesitenews.com)
  • From the beginning of his tenure as director of the NIH, Collins pursued a policy of expanding embryonic stem cell research, a priority of Obama's that likely influenced Collins's decision to join his campaign in 2008. (firstthings.com)
  • In 2009, in a major reversal of U.S. policy, President Obama signed an executive order pledging to "vigorously support" embryonic stem cell research. (jcpa.org)
  • If a primary contact is not selected, the PI will be the only person to receive all correspondence from the Research Ethics Board Administration (REBA). (ubc.ca)
  • In the case Whitner v. South Carolina in 1997, the South Carolina State Supreme Court defined the concept of a child to include viable fetuses. (asu.edu)
  • Graph showing the embryonic period (first 6 wk of life) in relation to the fetal period. (medscape.com)
  • President Clinton added a new twist when he approved government-funded research using brain tissue from aborted children. (str.org)
  • it also produces a cash crop: fetal brain tissue. (str.org)