Pro-lifers drop boycott after Pepsi disavows use of aborted fetal-cells - Washington Times
'HEK293 can be bought from ATCC for $300 and there are over 100 000 papers that have been using this cell line. '
'The most popular cell line in research: used for dissection of the signaling pathways, adhesion, migration studies -- pretty much everything that gives you drugs we have today. '
'This cell line has contributed greatly to research and if you are against it, you should boycott practically all the drugs used in clinic as well. '
'So senomyx has bought a cell line from ATCC.The reason why they used HEK293 is because no one would ever guess someone could get upset about it -- the fetus was dead when the cell line was harvested. '
'They used bunch of commercially available HEK293 cells. '
No. Cells from an aborted fetus from the 70s have been propagated and have been used in product testing. How, I have no clue, but they can apparently use these for taste testing. When someone found out that Pepsi would be using a company that used this type of testing, someone went out on the net and said that aborted babies were an
ingredient
in Pepsi products, which is not true. IIRC, Pepsi even backed out of using that company's testing because of the boycott. This has been popping up periodically online over the past two years or more.
▼ OtisFirefly
Some countries like to claim that they reduce, reuse and recycle, but America takes it to the next level.
▼ derram
https://archive.is/O2y8v :
'HEK293 can be bought from ATCC for $300 and there are over 100 000 papers that have been using this cell line. '
'The most popular cell line in research: used for dissection of the signaling pathways, adhesion, migration studies -- pretty much everything that gives you drugs we have today. '
'This cell line has contributed greatly to research and if you are against it, you should boycott practically all the drugs used in clinic as well. '
'So senomyx has bought a cell line from ATCC.The reason why they used HEK293 is because no one would ever guess someone could get upset about it -- the fetus was dead when the cell line was harvested. '
'They used bunch of commercially available HEK293 cells. '
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▼ Phobos_Mothership
This violates rule 2, and possibly rule 3. Please provide what directly links this to pizzagate.
▼ r3dtr1x
Just found this... wait.. what? Were we, as a society, at one time, consuming aborted fetuses?
▼ DystopianDaze
No. Cells from an aborted fetus from the 70s have been propagated and have been used in product testing. How, I have no clue, but they can apparently use these for taste testing. When someone found out that Pepsi would be using a company that used this type of testing, someone went out on the net and said that aborted babies were an ingredient in Pepsi products, which is not true. IIRC, Pepsi even backed out of using that company's testing because of the boycott. This has been popping up periodically online over the past two years or more.
▼ r3dtr1x
Good to know. Sheesh.