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WI-38 is a diploid human cell line composed of fibroblasts derived from lung tissue of a 3-month-gestation female fetus. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The fetus came from the elective abortion of a Swedish woman in 1963.
MRC-5 cell. MRC-5 (Medical Research Council cell strain 5) is a diploid cell culture line composed of fibroblasts, originally developed from the lung tissue of a 14-week-old aborted Caucasian male fetus.
[11] [13] [14] Descendants of the fibroblast cells from these fetuses have been growing in labs ever since, as the WI-38 and MRC-5 cell lines. They are still used to grow vaccine viruses today. [15] [1] As of March 2017, billions of vaccines have been given that were made using the WI-38 line alone. [16]
Hayflick produced the first oral polio vaccine ever made on his normal human cell strain WI-38. WI-38 is now used for the production of all of the Rubella Virus vaccine used in the Western Hemisphere. WI-38, or new diploid cell strains, are used today for the manufacture of most human virus vaccines produced throughout the world including those ...
Actress Danielle Vasinova is opening up about her unique experience with death. In December 2019, months before COVID was declared a pandemic, Vasinova caught the virus. The actress, who will kick ...
Rita Moreno appeared on Julia Louis-Dreyfus's Lemonada Media podcast, Wiser Than Me, on her 93rd birthday on Dec. 11, and shared her secret to looking so good at her age “I'm just a lucky little ...
Zooey Deschanel is a fun and festive mom! The actress, 44, attended an event for The Simpsons’ latest holiday special, "O C’mon All Ye Faithful," on Friday, Dec. 13, when she was accompanied ...
The WI-38 cell strain he developed at the Institute with Paul S. Moorhead, Ph.D., became the substrate for the production of many human virus vaccines. [ 24 ] Helen Dean King , Ph.D.: a biologist and the first woman research professor at Wistar and one of the first in the U.S. [ 25 ] A faculty member from 1909 to 1950, Dr. King researched the ...