Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
The word stem is nowhere on the site.
The word baby is nowhere on the site.
The word fetus is nowhere on the site.
The word abort is nowhere on the site.These are the kinds of things you learn when you think for yourself (GASP!) and don't blindly accept the rantings of crazy people (how dare I?).
http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/7344859.html
"The method of claim 33 wherein said cell is a HEK-293 cell."
HEK-293 cells... hmm...
A quick little Wikipedia search shows us the origin of the HEK-293 cell:
"HEK 293 cells were generated in early 70s by transformation of cultures of normal human embryonic kidney cells with sheared adenovirus 5 DNA in Alex Van der Eb's laboratory in Leiden, The Netherlands. The human embryonic kidney cells were obtained from a healthy aborted fetus and originally cultured by Van der Eb himself, and the transformation by adenovirus was performed by Frank Graham who published his findings in the late 1970s after he left Leiden for McMaster University in Canada."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEK_cell
So yeah, I just counted the words ABORTED and FETUS.
A little searching goes a long way, doesn't it? 🙂
I don't care if you don't care that ABORTED FETUS cells are being used, I do and I figured at least one other person here would.
I guess I was wrong.
Originally posted by Bat Dude
So yeah, I just counted the words ABORTED and FETUS.
Neither of which was on Senomyx website 🙂
Originally posted by Bat Dude
I don't care if you don't care that ABORTED FETUS cells are being used, I do and I figured at least one other person here would.I guess I was wrong.
Well yeah. How exactly do you object to people making using of stem cells? Seems like it would be vastly more disrespectful to deem them worthless and throw them in the trash. We like 40 years of scientific research, you like to dump babies in trashcans.
Who would ever have guessed you wouldn't be the sympathetic one?
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Neither of which was on Senomyx website 🙂Well yeah. How exactly do you object to people making using of stem cells? Seems like it would be vastly more disrespectful to deem them worthless and throw them in the trash. We like 40 years of scientific research, you like to dump babies in trashcans.
Who would ever have guessed you wouldn't be the sympathetic one?
It's still the method with which they do what they do 🙂 That's one of their patent claims, so it's undeniable.
I like to see babies born, my friend. Not aborted, in a petri dish, making someone's Diet Pepsi taste sweeter.