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To: surroundedbyblue; gas_dr

“Made from humanized mice installed with dead baby body parts. No thanks.”

This sounds like the BS scare story that the kooks were pushing about the HEK-293 cell line that was used for testing Covid vaccines. It’s an immortal cell line that originated from an embryo kidney cell in the 1970s and it’s been used for testing drugs ever since. The kooks love to claim that it’s in the drugs themselves when it never has been, it’s a test bed for drugs.

“Humanized mice” is probably supposed to be “humanized antibody” since tocilizumab is a “humanized antihuman IL-6 receptor antibody”. There’s also monoclonals known as “chimeric antibodies” that have an animal origin but tocilizumab isn’t one of those.

Humanized mice do exist but like the immortal embryo cell line they are for testing.


17 posted on 12/24/2022 12:36:05 AM PST by Pelham (World War III will be fought with nuclear weapons. World War IV will be fought with rocks & sticks.)
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To: Pelham

The involvement of HEK-293 in testing a drug disqualifies that drug for use by an ethical Christian. We’re kooks.


19 posted on 12/24/2022 1:13:59 AM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Pelham

Its not an antibody!!!!!

Its an antagonist. A chemical.

Where are other science freepers?


23 posted on 12/24/2022 5:55:16 AM PST by MarMema (Biden = Americans Last)
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To: Pelham

Firstly, we aren’t talking about HEK293 here. The humanized mice require recent abortions to harvest bone marrow and thymus from babies.

Second, even if the HEK293 fetal cell line was the only involvement of abortion in the production of these drugs, no pro life Christian can in good conscience take them. If that makes us kooks then I propose that YOU are the kook. Who in their right mind thinks these drugs, whose existence rely solely on murdered children, are acceptable?


30 posted on 12/24/2022 9:37:07 AM PST by surroundedbyblue (Proud to be an Infidel & a deplorable. )
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