Universities used aborted parts to create ‘humanized’ mice to study

thecollegefix ^ | August 18, 2015 | Kate Hardiman - University of Notre Dame

[Morgana]

At least two universities have purchased aborted body parts for “research” that includes injecting mice with fetal tissue to “humanize” them, according to invoices and publications of studies that have garnered scrutiny in the wake of an undercover probe into Planned Parenthood.

The two universities – University of Massachusetts and University of Wisconsin – are among at least 11 universities in total that have purchased aborted body parts for various “research,” according to videos and purchase orders that have come to light recently as a result of the Center for Medical Progress’ probe into the abortion provider’s practices.

[rey]

Why’d they do that? I have always though of Democrats as humanized mice.

[Morgana]

“I have always though of Democrats as humanized mice.”

There you go insulting mice again!!

[Smokin' Joe]

“Just one more step, Pinky, on my way to world domination!”

[exDemMom]

Human genes can be cloned from any human tissue; it is not at all necessary to use human embryos as the source of that tissue.

My understanding of “humanized” mice is that they are genetically altered so that they express the human form of one or more genes, rather than the mouse form of those same genes. A typical “humanization” is to make them produce human antibodies for disease/vaccine research.

Humanizing mice by inserting human genes into them does involve manipulating embryos—mouse embryos. I won’t go into all the details of how a genetically altered mouse is produced, but I can guarantee that at no step is it necessary to use a human embryo in this work.

I suspect that the authors of this article do not understand what “humanized” mice are, and misused the term.

[grey_whiskers]

Has anyone contacted PETA or similar animal-rights groups to see if they have a take on this?

(Those poor mice!)

(Thinking of the obviously planted Cecil the Lion story used to push CMP videos out of the news...)

[tbw2]

I wonder if the promise of growing organs for transplant in animals was a cover for putting fetal organs in animals, growing them to transplantable size and then selling them.