• The NIH is funding a $20 million program to "develop, demonstrate, and validate experimental models that do not rely on human fetal tissue from elective abortions. (chicagotribune.com)
  • NIH "has directed funding toward the development of alternative research methods that do not rely on human fetal tissue from elective abortions and I remain supportive of that effort. (chicagotribune.com)
  • The Trump administration banned federal funding for scientific research on fetal tissue from abortions. (npr.org)
  • MCCAMMON: Now, this tissue is often obtained from abortions. (npr.org)
  • The first was to ban NIH funding for what's known as intramural research - essentially just programs within the agency - that involved newly obtained fetal tissue from abortions, from more recent abortions. (npr.org)
  • There are ethical requirements for tissue obtained from elective abortions: patients have to understand what they're doing and consent to it. (kzyx.org)
  • The first was a ban on NIH funding for what's known as intramural research (essentially programs within the agency) involving newly obtained fetal tissue from abortions. (kzyx.org)
  • The journal said such tissue is "derived from elective abortions" and must be used in "a morally acceptable manner" that distinctly separates the decision to have an abortion from consent to donate the resulting tissue. (religionnews.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • During the July 30 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor , host Bill O'Reilly asked Republican presidential Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) to compare fetal tissue donation from abortions to so-called "Nazi stuff," adding "this is what they did in the Third Reich with these experiments. (mediamatters.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)
  • The new policy bans testing HIV therapies on fetal tissue taken from elective abortions. (queerty.com)
  • NIH on Monday released a notice of intent to publish new funding opportunity announcements inviting applications to develop and refine human tissue models that can be used to accurately model embryonic development or other aspects of human biology but do not rely on the use of fetal tissue obtained from elective abortions. (liveaction.org)
  • Thanks to women who choose to have abortions and then generously donate their aborted fetuses to medical research, scientists have been able to use fetal tissue to develop all kinds of treatments and cures for diseases. (wonkette.com)
  • Vaccines for hepatitis A, German measles, chickenpox and rabies, for example, were developed using cell lines grown from tissue from two elective abortions, one in England and one in Sweden, that were performed in the 1960s. (wonkette.com)
  • They argue that the research supports abortions but have taken part in receiving vaccines and therapy that comes from the research. (ipl.org)
  • But the current bill is gaining steam among legislators such as Stroebel because an anti-abortion group released videos of a California Planned Parenthood official discussing fetal tissue sales. (wuwm.com)
  • I've said it all along and will say it again: The antiabortion "sting" videos purporting to trap Planned Parenthood into admitting it harvests and sells aborted fetal parts for profit were as malicious as they were untrue. (latimes.com)
  • Asked to investigate Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, a branch of one of the country's most important healthcare providers for women, the grand jury found no wrongdoing on the part of the group, whose staffers were secretly videotaped talking about the cost of procuring fetal tissue for research. (latimes.com)
  • Planned Parenthood Federation of America's senior director of medical services, Deborah Nucatola, was secretly videotaped as she ate lunch with people she believed to be executives from an Irvine human biologics company. (latimes.com)
  • Underlying the furor over Planned Parenthood sending aborted fetal tissue to science for research is an ethical battle over the moral status of the fetus. (religionnews.com)
  • RNS) In a flood of outrage over Planned Parenthood videos - executives caught talking callously about supplying fetal tissue for medical research - some key points have washed out of attention, ethics experts say. (religionnews.com)
  • The church would see what Planned Parenthood is doing as a double indignity to human life. (religionnews.com)
  • A supporter of stem cell research who voted to legalize the use of fetal tissue for that very purpose, Senator Hatch led the bogus Republican witch hunt into Planned Parenthood in 2015. (perrspectives.com)
  • O'Reilly also falsely stated that Planned Parenthood was "selling" the donated fetal tissue. (mediamatters.org)
  • On the July 16 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show , Hannity argued that the secretly recorded conversations with Planned Parenthood officials in the Center for Medical Progress' videos sounded like "the things you'd expect to hear from a high-ranking official in the Nazi regime. (mediamatters.org)
  • A July 29 RedState blog post claimed that the Center for Medical Progress videos demonstrate that Planned Parenthood is "our Auschwitz. (mediamatters.org)
  • 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)
  • As you undoubtedly know, a group called the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) has made a series of undercover videos of high-ranking Planned Parenthood officials. (powerlineblog.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)
  • It includes some footage from the Planned Parenthood sting videos where technicians identify fetal body parts in petri dishes. (vox.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)
  • 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)
  • Also, as a fancy-pants Ivy League-educated attorney, Cruz should know that he can't prosecute Planned Parenthood for facilitating women's donations of fetal tissue to medical research because that is legal. (wonkette.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He also was indicted on a misdemeanor count that is related to soliciting the purchase of human organs, according to a statement from Harris County Dist. Atty. Devon Anderson (a Republican, I might add, who was appointed by former Texas Gov. Rick Perry). (latimes.com)
  • March for Life applauds the Administration for halting funding for research that requires aborted fetal organs and tissue. (marchforlife.org)
  • WASHINGTON - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Friday reversed restrictions on federally-funded research using fetal tissue and organs of aborted babies. (ncregister.com)
  • The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced on April 16 that it was reversing restrictions on research using fetal tissue and organs of aborted babies. (ncregister.com)
  • Abortion critics have interpreted this to mean that abortion providers can't make a profit on the sale of fetal organs. (powerlineblog.com)
  • I believe that whether fetal organs have any unique advantages in such research is hotly debated, and I have no opinion on the merits of that debate. (powerlineblog.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)
  • 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)
  • An ultrasound is an imaging test that uses sound waves to make pictures of organs, tissues, and other structures inside your body. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Ultrasound is best used to learn about conditions that involve soft tissues, such as organs, glands, and blood vessels. (medlineplus.gov)
  • 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)
  • The Charlotte Lozier Institute claimed that fetal tissue was previously used for humanized mice experiments at NIH and Food and Drug Administration facilities, before the Trump administration's moratorium. (ncregister.com)
  • In what was supposed to be some sort of "bombshell," antiabortion crusaders claimed that Nucatola admitted harvesting aborted fetal parts, changing abortion procedures to accommodate the harvesting of aborted fetal parts, then illegally selling the aborted fetal parts to medical researchers. (latimes.com)
  • The government's own top medical scientist, NIH Director Francis Collins, said as recently as last December that he believes "there's strong evidence that scientific benefits come from fetal tissue research ," and that fetal tissue, rather than any alternatives, would "continue to be the mainstay" for certain types of research for the foreseeable future. (chicagotribune.com)
  • 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)
  • Fetal tissue is uniquely valuable to medical researchers. (npr.org)
  • Researchers could still use cell lines and tissue obtained before this year in their quest to treat diseases. (wuwm.com)
  • Golden says if Wisconsin bans the use of fresh fetal tissue, researchers will flee the state taking with them millions of dollars in research grants. (wuwm.com)
  • Researchers participating in a AAAS Annual Meeting news briefing discuss how the use of brain tissue from living donors has prompted a paradigm shift in the study and understanding of the human brain. (aaas.org)
  • Researchers say they can grow large amounts of the transplantable tissue using cells from a small number of donors. (aaas.org)
  • Now, researchers in Sweden show that these biosynthetic corneas made with human collagen may allow patients who need corneal transplants but do not have donors to regain normal sight. (aaas.org)
  • Fetal tissue is uniquely valuable to medical researchers - useful for developing treatments and better understanding diseases like HIV, Parkinson's, and COVID-19. (kzyx.org)
  • The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said in a notice to the "extramural research community" - researchers who are not at NIH facilities - that it would be removing the Trump administration's 2019 requirement that a federal ethics advisory board review all proposals for fetal tissue research. (ncregister.com)
  • The 2008 Vatican document Dignitatis Personae said that researchers have a duty to refuse aborted fetal tissue "to remove oneself, within the area of one's own research, from a gravely unjust legal situation and to affirm with clarity the value of human life. (ncregister.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)
  • Researchers use fetal tissue to understand cell biology and human development. (wonkette.com)
  • Instead, it's using every play in an anti-science playbook to defund research and block medical researchers from making safe and effective discoveries. (ucsusa.org)
  • Using drugs for impotence does not increase the risk of malignant melanoma, researchers from Umeå University in Sweden conclude in a publication in JAMA, a top US medical journal. (news-medical.net)
  • These specimens are provided to us by retired physicians, medical researchers, dental professionals, and former university medical programs. (skullsunlimited.com)
  • In a recent study published in BRAIN , researchers evaluated the impact of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections on fetal brain health. (news-medical.net)
  • In the present study, researchers assessed the effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on fetal brain tissues. (news-medical.net)
  • Researchers at Lund University have discovered that a specific group of genetic elements in our DNA influence the development of the human brain, their study was published in Science Advances. (lu.se)
  • Researchers at Lund University offer new insights in their latest study, published in Science Advances, detailing how a specific group of genetic elements have influenced the development of the human brain over time. (lu.se)
  • In Lund, researchers are investigating these repetitive regions of our DNA to understand the role transposable elements play in human brain development and evolution. (lu.se)
  • 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)
  • Pro-cloning forces have been working hard to convince state governments to pass constitutional amendments enshrining a "right" to clone and to destroy embryos for research. (flfamily.org)
  • In August of 2003, Australia passed legislation that ensures consumers have the right to know when human embryos, human embryonic stem cells or materials derived from embryos or stem cells are used in the manufacture or testing of pharmaceuticals. (consciencelaws.org)
  • b) Any new prescription or non-prescription drug or medical treatment that will use human fetal or embryonic tissue, cell lines, DNA or components from procured abortion or in-vitro fertilized embryos that have been donated or otherwise produced or reproduced in research. (consciencelaws.org)
  • e) Any person or patient who is the recipient of a prescription or non-prescription drug, vaccination or medical procedure that would involve the use of human fetal or embryonic tissue, cell lines, DNA or components from procured abortion or in-vitro fertilized embryos that have been donated or otherwise produced or reproduced sexually or asexually in research. (consciencelaws.org)
  • 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)
  • Depending on the source, stem cells can be classified into two broad categories i.e. embryonic stem cells that are derived from embryos and non-embryonic stem cells that are derived from adult and fetal tissues. (benthamscience.com)
  • However, the derivation of human NT-ESCs goes with the destruction of clone embryos, leading to fierce ethical disputes. (benthamscience.com)
  • The Alternative Pluripotent Stem Cell Therapies Enhancement Act (S.2754) would fund efforts to derive and study cells which have the capabilities of embryonic stem cells but which are not obtained by destroying living human embryos. (christiannewswire.com)
  • It would prevent the use of human fetal tissue (such as fetal stem cells) obtained by growing human embryos in a human or animal uterus in order to provide such tissue. (christiannewswire.com)
  • Let's face it," said Casey, "this bill would nullify the Bush Administration's wise policy of permitting federal funding only on pre-existing embryonic stem cell lines, and promote research using 'new' embryonic stem cell lines that can only be obtained by destroying countless living human embryos that are now 'frozen and unchosen' in IVF fertility clinics or creating such human embryos for research destruction. (christiannewswire.com)
  • Embryonic stem cell research "uses special cells found in three-to-five day old human embryos to seek cures for a host of chronic disease" (PRC). (ipl.org)
  • The stem cells suits human needs, does not cause harm and can be obtained from both adult and fetal does not conflict with religious beliefs, it has tissues, umbilical cord and early embryos. (who.int)
  • Unicellular for those cells that are derived from human organisms are primed to replicate (clone) pre-embryos, which seem to have a high themselves by nature. (who.int)
  • In 2019, former President Trump put new restrictions on the use of fetal tissue in projects funded by the federal government. (npr.org)
  • In June 2019, HHS discontinued all research at NIH involving fetal tissue and announced that all new or renewed grants will have to go through an ethics review board. (ucsusa.org)
  • Only two similar cases with cortical hemorrhages were observed among 300 randomly chosen specimens out of 4,917 specimens sourced from the human development biology resource between September 1999 and December 2019. (news-medical.net)
  • Ending the use of fetal tissue by the National Institutes of Health has been a priority for anti-abortion activists, a core element of President Donald Trump's political base. (chicagotribune.com)
  • The Susan B. Anthony List, a group that works to elect lawmakers opposed to abortion, said in a statement that taxpayer funding ought to go to promoting alternatives to using fetal tissue in medical research. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Many anti-abortion rights activists oppose this research on moral or religious grounds. (npr.org)
  • Doctors involved have to attest that they obtained consent to collect the tissue after a woman had already decided to have an abortion. (npr.org)
  • But people opposed to abortion rights also often oppose this kind of research. (npr.org)
  • Well, if the opposition to fetal tissue research comes mainly from abortion rights opponents, what are they saying today about this latest development? (npr.org)
  • But people opposed to abortion rights often oppose this kind of research, and social conservatives held significant influence in the Trump administration. (kzyx.org)
  • But if you don't see this embryo or tissue - whether from an abortion or a miscarriage - as having a moral status, you don't see the issue of giving consent for its use in research. (religionnews.com)
  • Very little research is actually being done that currently relies on abortion-derived fetal tissues. (breitbart.com)
  • Research conducted using fetal tissue remains from abortion is unethical. (californiafamily.org)
  • While this field of research has been under attack by anti-abortion lobbyists before , this new tactic threatens the future of promising research that can help save lives, as it has in the past. (ucsusa.org)
  • As regards H.R. 810, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, Casey warned that the bill "violates a wise and fair decades-long policy against forcing taxpayers to support the destruction of early human life whether by abortion or by lethal human experimentation. (christiannewswire.com)
  • Research on spinal cord injuries and eyesight-robbing macular degeneration involves transplanting fetal cells into patients. (wonkette.com)
  • The cell lines continue to replicate on their own and no further sources of fetal cells are needed. (wikipedia.org)
  • They pretended to be seeking sources of fetal tissue for medical research. (latimes.com)
  • Federal law bans the sale of fetal tissue across state lines. (wuwm.com)
  • The use of fetal tissue in vaccine development is the practice of researching, developing, and producing vaccines through growing viruses in cultured (laboratory-grown) cells that were originally derived from human fetal tissue. (wikipedia.org)
  • The vaccines do not contain any of the original fetal tissue or cells or cells derived from fetal materials. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Catholic Church has encouraged its members to use alternative vaccines, produced without human cell lines, if possible. (wikipedia.org)
  • Fetal cell lines have been used in the manufacture of vaccines since 1930s. (wikipedia.org)
  • One of the first medical applications of cell lines derived from fetal tissues was their use in the production of the first polio vaccines. (wikipedia.org)
  • Many other vaccines, including those for chicken pox and rubella, are made using cell lines originally derived from fetal tissue from two pregnancies terminated in the 1960s, for reasons unrelated to vaccine development. (wikipedia.org)
  • Vaccines that have been or are made using cell lines originally derived from fetal tissue include: Adenovirus Chicken pox Ebola Polio Rabies Rubella Shingles Of these, the vaccines approved for use in the United States include some of those against rabies (Imovax), rubella, chicken pox, shingles, and adenovirus (as of January 2017). (wikipedia.org)
  • Nevertheless, the Pontifical Academy for Life, concluded in 2005 that parents may allow their children to receive vaccines made from fetal tissue if no alternative exists and there is a grave health risk. (wikipedia.org)
  • But research using fetal tissue has led to lifesaving advances , including development of vaccines for rubella and rabies and drugs to treat HIV. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Scientists around the country denounced the decision, saying that fetal tissue was critically needed for research on HIV vaccines, treatments that harness the body's immune system to battle cancer, and other health threats, including some to fetuses themselves. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Without fetal cells, we probably wouldn't have vaccines for German measles, chicken pox and polio. (latimes.com)
  • Time magazine reported that fetal tissue has contributed to vaccines for polio, rubella and chicken pox. (religionnews.com)
  • Vaccines have been one of the chief public benefits of fetal tissue research. (wonkette.com)
  • The chickenpox, rubella, hepatitis A, shingles and one rabies vaccine all derive from fetal embryo fibroblast cells cultivated in the 1960s -- and Catholic leadership has wrestled with the ethics of using those vaccines. (salon.com)
  • Human fetal tissue research saves lives and there is no good substitute for its use in testing disease treatments and vaccines. (ucsusa.org)
  • At the same time, they urged the federal government to "ensure that fundamental moral principles are followed in the development of such vaccines, most importantly, the principle that human life is sacred and should never be exploited. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • The Health and Human Services Department said in a statement that government-funded research by universities that involves fetal tissue can continue for now, subject to additional scrutiny - although it also ended one major university project that used the tissue to test HIV treatments. (chicagotribune.com)
  • On Wednesday, the administration also said it is not renewing an expiring contract with the University of California, San Francisco, that used fetal tissue to create a human-like immune system in mice for HIV research. (chicagotribune.com)
  • University of California San Francisco Chancellor Sam Hawgood hotly criticized the move as detrimental to disease research. (queerty.com)
  • For example, in the 1950s, scientists at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden propagated a polio virus in fetal cell lines to make into a polio vaccine. (wikipedia.org)
  • Fetal tissue also led to the development of the polio vaccine , and nobody wants to go back to the old-timey days of polio. (wonkette.com)
  • Early polio research included the use of embryonic tissue . (salon.com)
  • Science reports that NIH director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D . noted Thursday that while research on alternatives to the use of aborted fetal tissue is "scientifically, highly justified," fetal tissue will nevertheless "continue to be the mainstay. (breitbart.com)
  • Now, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra says he's reversing several restrictions on fetal tissue research put in place during the Trump administration. (kzyx.org)
  • What was the Trump administration policy on fetal tissue research - and what's changing now? (kzyx.org)
  • 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 Daily Signal ) The Trump administration is investing up to $20 million for the next two years to determine effective alternatives to using tissue from aborted babies for research. (liveaction.org)
  • The Trump administration has (once again) used a scientific advisory committee to further undermine science, this time undercutting critical research using fetal tissue. (ucsusa.org)
  • Specimens are obtained within minutes of passage and tissues are aseptically identified, staged, and immediately processed according to the requirements of individual investigators. (blessedquietness.com)
  • Consultative and Diagnostic Pathology, Inc., will be asking to obtain tissue specimens from your patient's medical procedure. (blessedquietness.com)
  • We attempted to isolate virus from 26 specimens from 9 Nipah-confirmed case-patients and 1 NiV-negative patient by processing throat swab, lung tissue, urine, and serum specimens in the Biosafety Level 4 laboratory of ICMR-NIV, as described previously ( 14 ) ( Table 1 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Skulls Unlimited International, Inc. is committed to providing legally and ethically obtained natural bone osteological specimens as well as the finest replica specimens to the educational, medical and research communities. (skullsunlimited.com)
  • Cortical hemorrhage was observed among 26 specimens out of 661 fetal brain specimens. (news-medical.net)
  • Therefore, the number of fetal specimens with cortical hemorrhages observed in the present study was unusual. (news-medical.net)
  • In essence, doctors harvested the leftover tissue to test experimental treatments. (queerty.com)
  • This means that we understand and appreciate that medical research and the testing of new medical treatments using fetal tissue raises inherent moral and ethical issues," HHS spokeswoman Caitlin Oakley said in a prepared statement. (liveaction.org)
  • c) Any health care provider, researcher, technician or other person required to perform or assist in the administration or research of prescription or non-prescription drugs, vaccinations or medical treatments. (consciencelaws.org)
  • d) Any person required to fill and dispense such prescription or non-prescription drugs, vaccinations or medical treatments. (consciencelaws.org)
  • As the world invests in research aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19 and saving lives, cutting fetal tissue research has meant literally stopping the work of scientists making progress on effective COVID-19 treatments . (ucsusa.org)
  • While many people say the use of the cell research is a way to advance medical knowledge and expand treatments, there is no guarantee that the treatments will work. (ipl.org)
  • The diseases and treatments that could come from giving up a human life are not worth it. (ipl.org)
  • That life may not even be worth it because it takes multiple tries before the stem cells are even suitable for use in medical treatments. (ipl.org)
  • MCCAMMON: Well, fetal tissue is uniquely adaptable, and so it's useful for a lot of different types of scientific inquiry. (npr.org)
  • Fetal tissue is uniquely adaptable and useful for many types of scientific inquiry. (kzyx.org)
  • After news that the Food and Drug Administration had renewed the contract with Advanced Bioscience Resources, 45 pro-life organizations wrote to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, asserting that it was "completely unacceptable to discover that the FDA is using federal tax dollars and fomenting demand for human body parts taken from babies who are aborted. (liveaction.org)
  • It's a safe and simple medical procedure that allows women to control whether and when to have babies, and, in certain cases when a pregnancy becomes life-threatening, it saves women's lives. (wonkette.com)
  • As a result, NIH froze procurement of new tissue. (chicagotribune.com)
  • 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)
  • After a recent review of a contract between Advanced Bioscience Resources Inc. and the Food and Drug Administration to provide human fetal tissue to develop testing protocols, HHS was not sufficiently assured that the contract included the appropriate protections applicable to fetal tissue research or met all other procurement requirements," Oakley said. (liveaction.org)
  • As a result, HHS is now conducting an audit of all acquisitions involving human fetal tissue to ensure conformity with procurement and human fetal tissue research laws and regulations," she said. (liveaction.org)
  • In September, HHS issued a statement announcing an audit would be conducted of all acquisitions involving human fetal tissue to ensure conformity with procurement and human fetal tissue research laws and regulations," Oakley said regarding the San Francisco contract. (liveaction.org)
  • ASH supported the introduction of H.R. 7308 and S.4286 , the Research Investment to Spark the Economy Act (RISE) Act, which authorizes approximately $26 billion in supplemental funding for federal research agencies, including NIH, to mitigate the disruption to federally funded research caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. (hematology.org)
  • About 700 faculty at UW-Madison signed a letter arguing the bill would quash research that could lead to cures. (wuwm.com)
  • Venture capital groups will not invest in the state if we have restrictive policies in place that prevent companies from doing what they need to do to get research and cures out," Radspinner said. (wuwm.com)
  • The common ground, however, may come if significant treatment or cures are found with fetal tissue research by scientists anywhere in the world. (religionnews.com)
  • Such amendments promise medical cures, limitless profits, and ethical benchmarks. (flfamily.org)
  • Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra is reversing restrictions on the use of fetal tissue in medical research implemented under former President Trump. (wkms.org)
  • Previous studies have reported that maternal SARS-CoV-2 infections and immunological responses elevate the risk of altered fetal brain development, fetal death, growth restrictions and severe pathologies such as intraventricular hemorrhages and pneumonia. (news-medical.net)
  • Additionally, an ASH-supported amendment the House-passed bill provides $2 million for the CDC's Sickle Cell Data Collection (SCDC) Program authorized by the Sickle Cell Disease Research, Surveillance, Prevention, and Treatment Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-327). (hematology.org)
  • The Trump administration's purge of fetal tissue research began in September 2018 when HHS announced it would audit its fetal tissue research program. (ucsusa.org)
  • We retrieved Nipah virus (NiV) sequences from 4 human and 3 fruit bat ( Pteropus medius ) samples from a 2018 outbreak in Kerala, India. (cdc.gov)
  • Casey said that CLS, "as a founding member of DO NO HARM, The Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics ( www.stemcellresearch.org ), supports the ethical research permitted by this bill using stem cells from adult tissues and umbilical cord blood that have been shown to have the versatility or to be convertible to the versatility once thought to only exist in embryonic stem cells. (christiannewswire.com)
  • In addition, SARS-CoV-2 was present sparsely in the placental, umbilical cord and amniotic tissues, indicating SARS-CoV-2 presence in maternal and fetal tissues. (news-medical.net)
  • Neither can an embryo or a section of tissue give informed consent to be used for research - a fundamental ethical requirement, said Beauchamp. (religionnews.com)
  • Experts outline the costs of disregarding the ethical considerations of such research. (ncregister.com)
  • Paul Wagle, M.A., discusses his experience with a life-saving adult stem cell treatment, and the importance of promoting ethical approaches to medical research. (flfamily.org)
  • Policymakers have the opportunity to hear expert witnesses attest to amazing scientific advancements and discoveries using ethical alternatives to fetal tissue. (flfamily.org)
  • For decades, proponents of destructive embryo research have given at least lip service recognition to the serious ethical concerns inherent to such research. (flfamily.org)
  • In order to encourage ethical research and protect the rights of all Americans as well as the citizens of foreign countries who use our products, the current method of labeling and informed consent must be amended. (consciencelaws.org)
  • The Human Fetal Tissue Ethics Advisory Board created in February 2020 held its sole meeting in July to review the ethical merits of 14 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant applications for research using fetal tissue. (ucsusa.org)
  • And despite the fact that HHS has previously deemed fetal tissue research to be legal and ethical under a certain set of criteria , committee members with biased views can recommend the rejection of grant applications because of subjective determinations about how research is unethical. (ucsusa.org)
  • Casey concluded by asking the Senate "to approve the first two bills that are respectful of both science and ethics, and reject H.R. 810 that is neither a necessary nor an ethical means to achieve the medical progress falsely promised for it. (christiannewswire.com)
  • Through its Law of Life Project, CLS supports ethical stem cell research and opposes the destructive human embryonic stem cell research. (christiannewswire.com)
  • Embryonic stem cell transplants have been an ethical, social, and legal controversy since the first successful transplant of human stem cells in 1998. (ipl.org)
  • Both heterogeneity and tissue specialization of immune cells may hold the key to understanding the pathophysiology of some important pregnancy complications, such as miscarriage and fetal growth restriction (FGR), which is defined as the failure of the fetus to achieve its genetically determined growth potential. (elifesciences.org)
  • Fetal growth restriction (FGR), craniosynostosis, and brachydactyly of right thumb were found in a fetus of 28th gestational weeks. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The National Institutes of Health budgeted $76 million for fetal tissue research in 2014 and roughly the same amount for 2015 and for 2016, according to The Washington Post. (religionnews.com)
  • During 2020, ASH continued to be highly visible in our advocacy for federal support of biomedical research and public health funding, including funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (hematology.org)
  • At UCSF, today's action ends a 30-year partnership with the [National Institutes of Health] (NIH) to use specially designed models that could be developed only through the use of fetal tissue to find a cure for HIV," Hawgood said. (queerty.com)
  • 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 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)
  • 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)
  • She added that donors "can stipulate where their money goes and can ask that it not pay for embryonic stem cell research. (salon.com)
  • there are reasons to have conversations about embryonic stem cell research and fetal tissue research. (salon.com)
  • Should embryonic stem cell research be legal? (consciencelaws.org)
  • Casey suggested that some state laws recently passed to encourage embryonic stem cell research, including one in New Jersey, could allow such "fetal farming" to harvest human body parts. (christiannewswire.com)
  • In fact to get a embryonic stem cell a human embryo has to be disassembled. (ipl.org)
  • In recent years, several competing viewpoints have emerged about embryonic stem cell research. (ipl.org)
  • All of this debate raises an important question, Should embryonic stem cell research be conducted for treatment of present and future diseases? (ipl.org)
  • People who believe that an embryo should not be destroyed tend to say that embryonic stem cell research should not be conducted. (ipl.org)
  • On the other hand, people who believe that embryonic stem cell research creates means of curing diseases reply that the research should be conducted. (ipl.org)
  • COS-1 cells are of monkey origin and there are xenogeneic differences between monkey and human proteins. (wikipedia.org)
  • Today, fetal tissue is still making an impact, with clinical trials underway using cells from fetal tissue to treat conditions including Parkinson's disease, ALS, and spinal cord injury," said Doug Melton, co-director of Harvard's Stem Cell Institute and president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research. (chicagotribune.com)
  • And so comparison to early fetal kidney cells that are doing it normally tells you that you're on the right track or not. (npr.org)
  • If we take a sliver of fetal thymic issue and put it into a mouse, the mouse's white blood cells then get programmed to act as if they were from a person rather than from a mouse. (wuwm.com)
  • 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)
  • CLI's Vice President and Research Director, Dr. David Prentice, recently joined Molly Smith, host of From the Median, to explain the science, history, and politics of stem cells. (flfamily.org)
  • Group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) adapt to tissue physiology and contribute to immunity, inflammatory pathology and metabolism. (elifesciences.org)
  • This important study describes the protective role of group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) in tissue physiology and contributes to immunity, inflammatory pathology, and metabolism in maintaining homeostasis during pregnancy. (elifesciences.org)
  • Despite often comprising only a small proportion of tissue resident immune cells, ILCs are present in most tissues and have been shown to orchestrate inflammatory responses to viruses, intracellular bacteria and parasites. (elifesciences.org)
  • Fetal cells are considered ideal because they divide rapidly, adapt to new environments easily and are less susceptible to rejection than adult cells when transplanted. (wonkette.com)
  • But the story has taken a new twist as religious groups are now beginning to discourage followers from participating -- because ALS research at times relies on embryonic stem cells. (salon.com)
  • The Archdiocese suggests people who want to do the challenge contribute to the John Paul II Medical Research Institute, "where the research is only conducted using adult stem cells. (salon.com)
  • cells that were extracted from fetal tissue, which was donated. (salon.com)
  • Kuldip S. Sidhu , " Frontiers in Pluripotent Stem Cells Research and Therapeutic Potentials Bench-to-Bedside ", Bentham Science Publishers (2012). (benthamscience.com)
  • The human body is made up of about 220 different kinds of specialized cells such as nerve cells, muscle cells, fat cells and skin cells. (benthamscience.com)
  • Induced pluripotent stem cells, another types of pluripotent stem cells derived from any tissue by reprogramming and are the homologous source of stem cells. (benthamscience.com)
  • The study of biology of stem cells is the hallmark of the recent emerging field of regenerative medicine and medical biotechnology. (benthamscience.com)
  • Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) can grow infinitely and give rise to all types of cells in human body, thus of tremendous therapeutic potentials for a variety of diseases, such as Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury, and diabetes. (benthamscience.com)
  • Mouse nuclear transfer embryonic stem cells (NT-ESCs) were first established in 2000, and then proved to be able to differentiate either in vivo or in vitro, and give rise to individual tissues through germ line transmission or tetraploid complementation. (benthamscience.com)
  • Casey noted from DO NO HARM's research of the medical literature from around the world that it "remains absolutely true that adult stem cells have benefited patients suffering from at least 72 diseases and conditions, where patient improvement is documented by peer-reviewed scientific publications. (christiannewswire.com)
  • We inoculated 100 μL of each sample into a 24-well culture plate of Vero (ATCC, CCL-81) cells in 1 ml of Eagle minimal essential growth medium containing 10% fetal calf serum in each well. (cdc.gov)
  • In this study, we investigated how higher-order chromatin structure modulates differential expression of the human INK4b-ARF-INK4a locus during progenitor cell differentiation, cellular ageing and senescence of cancer cells. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Next, the team examined the counts of cleaved caspase-3+ cells to determine whether the older or recent hemorrhages were related to increased cell deaths within cortical tissues. (news-medical.net)
  • Not only has it sparked a hundreds of debates it also has been the center of much criticism for its use of human cells. (ipl.org)
  • Advocates of stem cell research believe that the cells are not equivalent to human life because it is inside the womb even facing the fact that the start of a human life is in the moment of conception. (ipl.org)
  • Transfer of Fetal Cells with Multilineage Potential to Maternal Tissue' (2004), by Kiarash Khosrotehrani et al. (asu.edu)
  • Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, investigated the fetal cells that remained in the maternal blood stream after pregnancy. (asu.edu)
  • The results were published in Transfer of Fetal Cells with Multilineage Potential to Maternal Tissue. (asu.edu)
  • Tissues and Cells. (lu.se)
  • This paper outlines the debates prompted through a reproduction mechanism involv- by progress in cloning research, with special ing male and female germ cells. (who.int)
  • 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)
  • At 11 + 5 weeks, sonography showed the fetal CRL was 47 mm, which was in the 68th percentile of the Chinese population. (biomedcentral.com)
  • both fetal and adult brain tissue samples. (lu.se)
  • You can't make this fundamental clash of perspectives go away," said Tom Beauchamp , Georgetown University professor of philosophy, senior research scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and co-author of one of the foundational texts in the field, "Principles of Biomedical Ethics. (religionnews.com)
  • The NIH is the US's biomedical research agency. (ncregister.com)
  • ASH and other members of the biomedical research community have strongly urged Congress to provide increased funding for NIH and CDC, noting the increased resources needed by these agencies due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (hematology.org)
  • The NIH will fund research to develop alternative models to the use of human fetal tissue in biomedical research. (liveaction.org)
  • According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, one of the top ten issues that will come before state legislatures this year (2006) relates to rights of conscience in the biomedical field - stem cell experimentation and research. (consciencelaws.org)
  • According to the Federal Register notice , the committee would be made up of at least one-third scientists with "substantial accomplishments in biomedical or behavioral research. (ucsusa.org)
  • SUMMARY The Indian Council of Medical Research formulates, coordinates and promotes biomedical research in India. (who.int)
  • Its main function is to formulate, coordinate and promote biomedical research in India through intramural as well as extramural research programmes. (who.int)
  • Christina Wang, MD, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute lead researcher, has received a top honor for her outstanding research work, the Mayo H. Soley Award, at the 2015 Western Regional Meetings of five top research societies in the West. (news-medical.net)
  • At the Fetal Treatment Center, he provides prenatal counseling to women with complicated pregnancies. (ucsfhealth.org)
  • Indeed, maternal ILC2s promote fetal growth and protect against fetal mortality upon systemic endotoxin challenge. (elifesciences.org)
  • And why do scientists say it's necessary for medical research? (npr.org)
  • What is fetal tissue research - and why do many scientists say it's necessary? (kzyx.org)
  • It blocks important future research vital to the development of new therapies. (chicagotribune.com)
  • After over 100 years of research, no therapies have been discovered or developed that require aborted fetal tissue," she continued. (breitbart.com)
  • Fetal Tissue Research: Antiquated and Unethical? (flfamily.org)
  • However, in his comments Thursday, Collins said that even if alternatives are found, "you're going to have to compare it to the current standard, which is using fetal tissue. (breitbart.com)
  • Collins provided his comments just as a House Oversight subcommittee was holding what turned out to be a highly combative hearing to explore alternatives to the use of fetal tissue for research. (breitbart.com)
  • Our skeleton is composed of both hard and soft tissues and is constantly changing to accommodate our needs. (skullsunlimited.com)
  • In the blood, absorbed lead is bound to erythrocytes and then is distributed initially to multiple soft tissues and eventually into bone. (cdc.gov)
  • Lead is cleared from the blood and soft tissues with a half-life of 1 to 2 months and more slowly from the skeleton, with a half-life of years to decades. (cdc.gov)
  • I would also like to mention, the bill bans both food and products made of aborted human fetuses. (thestranger.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 they also say there may be an unresolvable impasse in the public response: Can or should the leading provider of women's health care be shut down in a showdown over the moral status of embryonic and fetal life? (religionnews.com)
  • If you think that, never mind the stage of development from embryo to fetus, this is a human life, a person, and any intervention is an act of killing, it's an unforgivable crime because a fetus has full moral status including, at the very least, the right not to be killed. (religionnews.com)
  • Dr. Condic discusses the beginning of human life and the moral status of the human being. (flfamily.org)
  • Medical research almost always inspires moral questions, and those questions need to be asked and debated. (salon.com)
  • He said, "CLS supports a national prohibition on such grotesque forms of lethal human experimentation for the same legal and moral reasons America has always prohibited the lethal experimentation on death row inmates. (christiannewswire.com)
  • In this article R. Alta Charo states that we have a right to use fetal tissue for research and therapy (Fetal Tissue, 1) The article goes into how a lot of people find this to be a moral issue and a matter of the conscience and explains how the antiabortion activist that don't agree with the research are actually benefitting from the fetal tissue. (ipl.org)
  • David Daleiden, the antiabortion zealot who created the Center for Medical Progress as a front for his deceptive efforts, has been indicted on a felony charge of tampering with a government record. (latimes.com)
  • In July, the first of several Center for Medical Progress videos was released. (latimes.com)
  • The Center for Medical Progress video campaign is a dishonest attempt to make legal, voluntary and potentially lifesaving tissue donations appear nefarious and illegal. (powerlineblog.com)
  • That's different from the Center for Medical Progress , the group behind the sting videos. (vox.com)
  • Just over a year ago the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) began to release a series of undercover videos chronicling Planned Parenthood's alarming practice of selling body parts of aborted victims- livers, kidneys, eyeballs, brains, and more - for research. (texasallianceforlife.org)
  • While the bill's proponents argue human dignity is at stake, those opposed cite people suffering with incurable diseases and conditions. (wuwm.com)
  • Still, it is essential that "fetuses, even dead fetuses, need to be treated with respect and dignity" at every stage, including burial of the remains after research is completed, said Hamel. (religionnews.com)
  • 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)
  • This type of experimental research is a gross violation of human dignity and is not where the majority of Americans want their tax dollars being spent. (ncregister.com)
  • A spokesperson for the White House said: "This was the president's decision, another important policy … to protect the dignity of human life. (queerty.com)
  • Because life is precious and human dignity needs to be respected, of course now anti-choice groups are now coming down on the Ice Bucket Challenge. (salon.com)
  • Advancements in science have been able to alter adult tissue to study systemic immune diseases. (queerty.com)
  • Nonetheless, many other viral infections can affect the oral cavity in humans, either as localized or systemic infections. (medscape.com)
  • Immortalised cell lines are an important research tool offering a stable medium for experiments. (wikipedia.org)
  • Others at the hearing likened medical research on fetal tissue to experiments Nazis conducted on humans. (wuwm.com)
  • The policy merely states that the federal government will not provide funds to big pharma to use fetal tissue in experiments. (queerty.com)
  • The new announcement is a positive step, said Melanie Israel, research associate with The Heritage Foundation. (liveaction.org)
  • Administration officials said the federal policy changes will not affect privately funded research. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Federal regulations specify there can be "reasonable payments associated with the transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control, or storage of human fetal tissue. (religionnews.com)
  • The NIH director said the recent decision of its parent agency - the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) - to audit federal purchases of aborted fetal tissue is being done simply "to assure the skeptics about the value of fetal tissue research [and] that this is being done according to all the appropriate regulations, guidelines, and oversight. (breitbart.com)
  • for federally-funded fetal tissue research outside NIH facilities, the agency required approval by federal ethics advisory boards. (ncregister.com)
  • The board ultimately voted to withhold federal funding from 13 different fetal tissue research proposals, voting not to withhold funding of only one such proposal. (ncregister.com)
  • Under federal law , 42 U.S.C. Sec. 289g-2, it is legal to give or transfer fetal tissue, but not for "valuable consideration. (powerlineblog.com)
  • However, they can opt to use adult tissue in stem cell research without a problem in federal funding. (queerty.com)
  • The federal government should promote good science and respect innocent human life-these two principles are not mutually exclusive, and HHS must proceed accordingly," Israel told The Daily Signal. (liveaction.org)
  • The announcement also comes amid blistering attacks from the mainstream media that halting federal funding of fetal tissue research is preventing a study to "discover a cure for HIV. (liveaction.org)
  • With so much at stake, why would HHS dedicate so much time and effort to ending federal fetal tissue research and now federally-funded external research? (ucsusa.org)
  • The statutory backing of the formation of the committee is from federal code related to the formation of Institutional Review Boards to ensure that research involving human subjects is ethically sound. (ucsusa.org)
  • The Fetus Farming Prohibition Act (S.3504) amends current federal law against abuses in the area of fetal tissue research. (christiannewswire.com)
  • Although Nucatola's conversation may have been unsavory - who wants to talk about fetal body parts over salad? (latimes.com)
  • The irony of defunding this research while pushing for vaccine development at "warp speed" is all too apparent. (ucsusa.org)
  • In 2011, fetal researcher Vivette Glover published "Annual Research Review: Prenatal Stress and the Origins of Psychopathology: An Evolutionary Perspective," hereafter, "Prenatal Stress and the Origins of Psychopathology," in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. (asu.edu)
  • Pregnancy ultrasound may also be called "prenatal ultrasound," "fetal ultrasound," or "obstetrical ultrasound. (medlineplus.gov)
  • GOLDSTEIN: It was an incredibly unpleasant experience because highly meritorious research projects that had already been through multiple layers of review, both scientifically and ethically, went to this board to be killed. (npr.org)
  • The use of fetal tissue in medical research is legal - and scientifically valuable. (religionnews.com)
  • Emerging viruses already circulating in the Western Hemisphere could infect fetal tissue and might have the capacity to cause birth defects, according to preclinical findings published January 31 in Science Translational Medicine. (aaas.org)
  • SARS-CoV-2 can reportedly infect developing human neurons within cerebral organoids. (news-medical.net)
  • Appropriations legislation passed in the House in July 2020 provides $42 billion in annual appropriations for the NIH in fiscal year (FY) 2021, a $500 million increase over the agency's current funding level, as well as an additional $5 billion in emergency appropriations for NIH to be used to offset costs related to reductions in laboratory productivity resulting from COVID-19-interruptions or shutdowns of research. (hematology.org)
  • Below are some of the highlights of the Society's 2020 advocacy efforts in support of research and public health funding. (hematology.org)
  • The study was conducted between July 2020 and mid-April 2022 in the United Kingdom (UK), wherein human fetal tissues aged 9.0 to 21.0 pcw (post-conception weeks) were obtained from the HDBR (human development biology resource). (news-medical.net)
  • The other step was a requirement that external applicants for NIH funds who wanted to use fetal tissue would have to go through a new ethics advisory board review process. (npr.org)