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[–] 62 points 11 months ago (10 children)

they use a lot of other things… including living human cancer cells in a petri dish

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    I believe the vast majority of cultivated human cells are cancerous cells anyway.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    when researching cancer drugs, yeah

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Actually it's used in everything, it's available, it's well studied, it's cheap, and most importantly it grows fast in a lab, so it's easy to work with....

    I wish I was joking, but lots of in vitro human research is done on the poor women's cancer cells when the research has nothing to do with cancer, it's quite the confounder

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