Join the Vikings for Life Club for a student-led discussion on the creation and history of fetal cell lines, such as WI-38, HEK-293, MRC-5, and Walvax-2:
Fetal Stem Cells and Harvesting; Procurement, History, and Use
“We obtained nine fetuses through rigorous screening based on carefully specified inclusion criteria.” – Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, May 2015
“So, I isolated the retina from a fetus, from a healthy fetus as far as could be seen, of eighteen weeks old. There was nothing special with the family history or the pregnancy, was completely normal up to the eighteen weeks . . . . PER.C6 was made just for pharmaceutical manufacturing of adenovirus vectors . . . ” – Dr. Alex Van der Eb, FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, May 2001.