Although fetal tissue has been used to develop HIV drugs and vaccines, the Trump administration is continuing its anti-abortion agenda by banning it from government research by lisettevoytko
Wednesday on using fetal tissue in government research, a move that one prominent bioethicist is calling the “death knell” for advancements in that area of medicine.
The University of California at San Francisco is immediately affected by the new policy with the cancellation of its $2 million annual contract with National Institutes of Health , which is set to expire Wednesday. Privately funded research and NIH-funded projects using fetal tissue will continue. Research performed with fetal tissue from elective abortions has led to new vaccines for rubella and rabies and the development of antiviral drugs to treat HIV. The tissue is being used to create cancer treatments and a Zika virus vaccine.of newborn mice, which mature with immune systems that mimic humans’. The tissue would be otherwise discarded if it wasn’t used for research purposes.for fetal tissue, but it has yet to materialize.