The U.S. government restricts fetal tissue research
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Last Update: 2021-02-22
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study of fetal tissue is restricted in the United States.
U.S. President Donald Trump is blocking government-funded scientists from conducting fetal tissue research and restricting academics involved in obtaining funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for fetal tissue research.
government said on June 5 that it would establish an ethics evaluation committee to evaluate every request for funding to support research using fetal tissue, which comes from selective abortion. The government has decided not to renew the contract of a laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco, that uses fetal tissue for HIV research.
S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said in a statement: "Promoting the dignity of human life from conception to natural death is one of the trump administration's top priorities. Abortion
have previously urged restrictions on the use of fetal tissue for scientific research, although researchers warn that the use of fetal tissue is the only way to study some health problems. Scientists use fetal tissue to explore a variety of topics, such as infectious diseases, human development, and eye diseases.
decision will hinder research," said Andrew McMahon, a stem cell biologist at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. McMahon
is working on ways to grow kidneys from human stem cells. The only way to determine whether he and his colleagues succeeded in mimicking natural development, he says, is to compare their native organs with kidneys in fetal tissue. Although biomedical research often uses mice as human substitutes, the kidneys of mice are so different from those of people that they cannot be used.
since September 2018, HHS has been reviewing all fetal tissue studies funded by its affiliates, including the NIH and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. HHS's contract with ucla's lab expires in March. The department agreed at the time to extend it until June 5, but now says it will not do so.
school's principal, Sam Hawgood, said in a statement that the government's decision was "politically motivated, short-sighted and not based on sound science." "Today's action ends our 30-year partnership with NIH using a special design model that can only find a cure for AIDS through the use of fetal tissue."
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