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<blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3288104" data-attributes="member: 5412"><p>The cells, called HEK 293 cells (that stands for human embryonic kidney) were taken from an <a href="http://women.webmd.com/tc/abortion-topic-overview" target="_blank">aborted fetus</a> in the 1970s in the Netherlands. Bits of chopped up <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA" target="_blank">DNA</a> from the adenovirus, a virus that causes a pretty severe cold. The kidney cells were forced to take up bits of DNA using a technique invented in 1973 that used a calcium solution. The resulting cells don't act much like human cells at all, but they are very easy to work with and have become workhorses of cellular biology. That's why they're used in the development of drugs and vaccines. (Here's <a href="http://vir.sgmjournals.org/content/36/1/59.long" target="_blank">the original paper on the creation of the HEK cells</a>. ) No new fetal tissue has been used to keep the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_culture" target="_blank">cell culture</a> going; the use of this cell line isn't leading to new abortions.</p><p></p><p>I'm totally against abortion unless the mother's life is in danger, ****, incest, etc., but I'm not against this and not boycotting anything.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dennishoddy, post: 3288104, member: 5412"] The cells, called HEK 293 cells (that stands for human embryonic kidney) were taken from an [URL='http://women.webmd.com/tc/abortion-topic-overview']aborted fetus[/URL] in the 1970s in the Netherlands. Bits of chopped up [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA']DNA[/URL] from the adenovirus, a virus that causes a pretty severe cold. The kidney cells were forced to take up bits of DNA using a technique invented in 1973 that used a calcium solution. The resulting cells don't act much like human cells at all, but they are very easy to work with and have become workhorses of cellular biology. That's why they're used in the development of drugs and vaccines. (Here's [URL='http://vir.sgmjournals.org/content/36/1/59.long']the original paper on the creation of the HEK cells[/URL]. ) No new fetal tissue has been used to keep the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_culture']cell culture[/URL] going; the use of this cell line isn't leading to new abortions. I'm totally against abortion unless the mother's life is in danger, ****, incest, etc., but I'm not against this and not boycotting anything. [/QUOTE]
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