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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Vaccines and aborted fetal tissue are linked in some cases. That's because certain vaccines, such as a type of rabies vaccine, are made by cultivating the virus in fetal cells. The Janssen COVID ...