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The effectiveness of the experimental therapy that, in Trump’s words, set him back twenty years, had been tested using monoclonal cells from fetal tissue collected more than 40 years ago and “frozen,” a sufficient window to bypass the ban. by the president last year to counter the use of “fetal cell lines.”
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Details of the origin of the therapy were provided by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals itself, the company that developed the treatment.
The use of “immortalized” cells is widespread throughout the world: the lines are defined as “stable”, that is, capable of being reproduced in the laboratory and guaranteeing all researchers to carry out standardized experiments that respond to the same parameters.
The antibodies used by Regeneron are produced by Cho cells, hamster ovary cells, and are tested on cells taken from a legally aborted fetus. In the president’s case, a “line”, called 293T, derived from kidney tissues from an abortion performed in the 1970s in the Netherlands, would have been used. In 1985 an identical line was obtained from cells of a fetus aborted at the eighteenth week.
Years of laboratory breeding do not allow for a technically direct link between the therapy used to heal the president and fetal cells, but when the correlation emerged, evangelicals and the pro-life movement supporting Trump and his anti-abortion campaign, they did not. did. they criticized the genesis of the therapy that saved the president.
When the administration announced a year ago the suspension of funding for biomedical research on abortion-derived tissues, the Health Department said that “promoting the dignity of human life is one of the president’s priorities.” And 100 conservative members of Congress signed an open letter praising Trump’s decision to “protect the sanctity of all human life.”
The antiviral drug Remdesivir, which the president received in the last week, was produced thanks to a process that a year ago was defined by conservatives as “morally unacceptable.”
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Some investigators see double standards in the White House. “If you oppose the investigation – he told the New York Times Deepak Srivastava, which leads the International Society for Stem Cell Research, should have rejected the use of drugs that were produced after that research. “
Two other companies, Moderna and AstraZeneca, use fetal cells. As members of Operation Warp Spreed, created by the president to find a vaccine quickly, the two drug companies and Regeneron have received federal funding. And others may be on the way.
Remdesivir proved so effective that the Regeneron group asked the Food and Drug Administration to authorize its emergency use nationwide. If given the green light, the drug would be financed by the government headed by the man leading the crusade against abortion.
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