The emails discuss fetal tissue like any other commodity such as sugar or rice, nonchalantly negotiating for fetuses up to 23 weeks old from elective abortions. A heavily-redacted so-called ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

can lead to decreased level of oxygen in fetal tissue (hypoxia) and possibly to an increased concentration of hydrogen ions (respiratory acidemia). If hypoxemia and hypoxia persist, the cellular ...

By the ninth week, the conceptus enters the fetal period, which is characterized by the growth and continued differentiation of the tissues and organs that were established previously. Thus, most of ...

Regarding the “Abortion care is health care” letter (Our Readers’ Views, Oct. 26): While dilation and curettage is used to remove fetal tissue in both abortions and miscarriages, there is a difference ...