
US Senate candidate, PA lawmaker call for investigation after reports on Pitt fetal tissue research
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The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is facing fresh calls for an investigation on its federally funded research on fetal tissue, after information surfaced that many say is troubling.
"If these allegations are true that scientists at the University of Pittsburgh were harvesting kidneys of unborn babies while their hearts were still beating, they should not only have their taxpayer funding immediately suspended, everyone involved should face criminal charges," he tweeted Thursday. New documents released this week by the watchdog Judicial Watch show Pitt discussing its effort to minimize warm ischemic time, or the amount of time an organ maintains its body temperature after blood flow has been severed. It's unclear how these procedures take place, but that content prompted some to speculate about the status of fetuses whose organs were collected.More Related News