Aborted Fetal Cells MRC-5
- MRC-5 (Medical Research Council cell strain 5) is present in several vaccines.
- The MRC-5 cell line was developed in September 1966 from lung tissue taken from a 14 week fetus aborted for psychiatric reason from a 27 year old physically healthy woman.
- MRC-5 cell strain was started with fetal lung cells and was developed, using Hayflick’s technology in 1970 at the Medical Research Center in the United Kingdom.
