“It’s a holdover from, frankly, the 1960s and 70s when people were just learning how to grow cells in the lab and it was easier at that stage to grow fetal tissue,” he says. If the state of ...

The emails discuss fetal tissue like any other commodity such as sugar or rice, nonchalantly negotiating for fetuses up to 23 ...

Yet she fails to note that the vast majority of this progress relies not on fetal tissue but on the use of stem cells that are isolated from birth-related material and/or adult tissue. A search of ...

For the first time, scientists have grown cerebral organoids — three-dimensional, lab-grown "minibrains" — from human fetal brain tissue. The new organoids grew to the size of a grain of rice ...