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- From: gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis)
- Subject: Fetal Tissue Research (was Re: A question for Suzanne.)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.172412.3993@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Virginia Health Sciences Center
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:24:12 GMT
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- I have mentioned before and will mention again that a lot of the research
- in question involves certifying that fetal tissue is not involved, rather
- than making sure tissue is not supplied. A lot of times the actual
- tissue or whatever has no clear trail of origin, so it is impossible to
- certify that fetal tissue is not involved, although that may be exactly
- the case. The effect is that whole area of research may be avoided, not
- a specific source of supply for one avenue of investigation. I know this
- to be a fact in whole areas of brain and nerve research. Cutting off funding
- for fetal tissue research may indeed sound good to some people, but the
- actual effect is a far cry from what might be expected or imagined.
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