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.

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.

Oct 29, 2009 / 15:28 pm. The organization Children of God for Life released a statement on Tuesday blasting the pharmaceutical company Neocutis for using cells harvested from an aborted fetus in ...

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.

VERIFY: Aborted fetal cell lines are used to produce Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine. ... For some faith communities, the origin of cells used in medicine is a significant moral issue.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A neurosurgery team will next month transplant cells from aborted human fetuses into the brain of a person with Parkinson’s disease. The operation breaks a decade-long international moratorium ...