Fetal tissue, however, has never been used as a flavor enhancer. A 2021 article by Politifact states Senomyx used the HEK 293 cell line to function as a mouth's taste receptor cells, which allowed ...

Treatments Trump took for COVID developed using cells from aborted fetal tissue 07:00. The antibody cocktail that President Trump received for his COVID-19 infection and touted on Wednesday ...

Dozens of 5 On Your Side viewers asked the VERIFY team about aborted fetal cells in the COVID-19 vaccines. They’ve seen this claim online and heard it from some anti-abortion groups.

No aborted tissue and no fetal cells were used in the development or production of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, but fetal cell lines were used in testing.

Instead, PER.C6 cells are the multi-generational offspring of a colony of a fetal cell line that originated with one 18-week old fetus aborted in 1985 and serve various purposes in biology research.

The Janssen COVID-19 vaccine, no longer made by Johnson & Johnson, was developed using cells from a fetus aborted in 1985; ... Some fetal cells have been used in research since the 1930s.

ST. LOUIS — Dozens of 5 On Your Side viewers have asked the Verify team about fetal cell lines in the COVID-19 vaccines. With the recent approval of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, there's a new ...

Here are the facts about fetal cell lines and COVID-19 vaccines. As more people apply for religious exemptions to vaccine mandates, experts explain how and why fetal cells are used in drug ...

Fetal tissue has been used since the 1930s for vaccine development, and more recently to help advance stem cell research and treatments for degenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease ...

A San Francisco cosmetics company has ignited an outcry among pro-lifers for including an unexpected ingredient in its anti-aging creams: skin-cell proteins from an aborted fetus.