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Moderna Covid-19 Vaccine – Facts – Not Fiction
Many of you have asked about Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine and whether it uses aborted fetal cells or not. The following links contain all the proof anyone needs to show that the aborted fetal cell line HEK-293 was indeed used extensively by Moderna in numerous patents in the fundamental design of mRNA technology, their Spike protein and in the research, development, production and testing.
Unlike traditional cell-culture vaccines where viruses are cultivated on a cell line, mRNA vaccines do not use cells for that purpose at all and therefore, there are no cells or cell fragments IN the vaccines. Some have said that since there are no aborted fetal cells IN the vaccines, they are morally okay. Nothing could be further from the truth because the aborted fetal cells were most certainly an integral part of Moderna’s vaccine.
Now some have argued that some of the patents we are citing are not for the actual vaccine, however that is totally inconsequential because the technology was established using aborted fetal cells. And it doesn’t matter that the cells are not used over and over again from a moral perspective either. This is also true of the Spike protein produced using HEK-293 cells as well. Once the protein is built, the cells are not used again. But the protein IS used – and the mRNA IS used and both were built on technology that extensively used aborted fetal cells, rendering the vaccine absolutely immoral from start to finish.
So let’s take a look at the facts. Moderna and the NIH worked jointly on the Covid-19 vaccine as announced in several publications in early 2020. Starting here….
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The National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases has partnered with Moderna on this vaccine. Scientists at NIAID made the vaccine’s construct, or prototype, and the agency is running the Phase 1 trial.
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NIAID is partnering with Moderna on an mRNA vaccine against 2019-nCoV, Fauci said. “We are taking the gene for the spike protein S and inserting it into a mRNA platform to create a vaccine.”
The Spike protein was part of the NIAID joint venture. NIH did the Spike S protein –
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“mRNA-1273 is an mRNA vaccine against the novel coronavirus encoding for a prefusion stabilized form of the Spike (S) protein, which was selected by Moderna in collaboration with investigators at the NIAID Vaccine Research Center (VRC)”
So when you look at NIAID’s work – that article is here:
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/atomic-structure-novel-coronavirus-protein
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Importantly, the new data supports NIAID’s approach to a gene-based vaccine for COVID-19 and will also be useful in other vaccine approaches including protein-based vaccines and other nucleic acid or vector-based delivery approaches. NIAID scientists designed the stabilized spike antigen based on previous knowledge obtained from studying other coronavirus spike structures. NIAID and the biotechnology company Moderna, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are developing a messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine, which directs the body’s cells to express the spike in its prefusion conformation to elicit an immune response.
And the Materials and Methods show the 293 cells.
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/suppl/2020/02/18/science.abb2507.DC1/abb2507-Wrapp-SM.pdf
And if that is not enough, Moderna’s use of HEK is not new…previous patents in 2015 show its use as well. Use the Find function and type in HEK in the search…it’s listed 76 times.
Also – more here showing how HEK-293 cells are used with the Spike S protein:
https://www.sinobiological.com/research/virus/human-coronavirus-spike
Now, if you still need convincing that Moderna is using HEK-293 cells, this is straight from their own website:
https://www.modernatx.com/newsroom/publications
And from their Publications page, see this link:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-020-0163-z
Since it deals with lung infection (which Covid-19 causes) it seems like a pretty good reference to what they are doing. The use of 293 cells is cited in several places including in the supplementary information. That is linked here:
The very first paragraph shows the use of 293 cells IN THE CONSTRUCTION. The authors of the study are both Merck and Moderna.
And in July 2020: An mRNA Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 — Preliminary Report
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2022483
Which clearly states they are using the Spike protein which some have tried to deny.
Under Vaccine – Quoting:
The mRNA-1273 vaccine candidate, manufactured by Moderna, encodes the S-2P antigen, consisting of the SARS-CoV-2 glycoprotein with a transmembrane anchor and an intact S1–S2 cleavage site. S-2P is stabilized in its prefusion conformation by two consecutive proline substitutions at amino acid positions 986 and 987, at the top of the central helix in the S2 subunit.8
And voila – Reference no. 8 at the bottom of the page is none other than:
Wrapp D, Wang N, Corbett KS, et al. Cryo-EM structure of the 2019-nCoV spike in the prefusion conformation. Science 2020;367:1260-1263.
In addition, both the Protocol https://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMoa2022483/suppl_file/nejmoa2022483_protocol.pdf
and Supplemental Information https://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMoa2022483/suppl_file/nejmoa2022483_appendix.pdf linked at the bottom of the NEJM article show the use of HEK-293.
Also the article dated August 2020, clearly shows the use of the HEK293 as well for the mRNA-1273 vaccine.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2622-0
Just a sampling – page 9 of the Nature article:
MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV Protein Expression and Purification
Vectors encoding MERS-CoV S-2P1 and SARS-CoV S-2P23 were generated as previously described with the following small amendments.
Proteins were expressed by transfection of plasmids into Expi293 cells using Expifectamine transfection reagent (ThermoFisher) in suspension at 37 °C for 4-5 days. Transfected cell culture supernatants were collected, buffer exchanged into 1X phosphate buffered saline (PBS), and protein was purified using Strep-Tactin resin (IBA). For proteins used for mouse inoculations, tags were cleaved with addition of HRV3C protease (ThermoFisher) (1% wt/wt) overnight at 4 °C. Size exclusion chromatography using Superose 6 Increase column (GE Healthcare) yielded final purified protein.
Design and Production of Recombinant Minifibritin Foldon Protein
The construct was expressed by transient transfection of Expi293 (ThermoFisher) cells in suspension at 37 °C for 5 days. The protein was first purified with a Ni2+-nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) resin (GE Healthcare,) using an elution buffer consisting of 50 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.5, 400 mM NaCl, and 300 mM imidazole, pH 8.0, followed by purification with StrepTac
Cell Lines
HEK293T/17 (ATCC #CRL-11268), Vero E6 (ATCC), Huh7.5 cells (provided by Deborah R. Taylor, US Food and Drug Administration), and ACE2-expressing 293T cells (provided by Michael Farzan, Scripps
In vitro mRNA Expression
HEK293T cells were transiently transfected with mRNA encoding SARS-CoV-2 WT S or S-2P protein using a TranIT mRNA transfection kit (Mirus). After 24 hr, the cells were harvested and resuspended in FACS buffer (1X PBS, 3% FBS, 0.05% sodium azide). To detect surface protein expression, the cells were stained with 10 µg/mL ACE2-FLAG (Sigma) or 10 µg/mL CR302235 in FACS buffer for 30 min on ice. Thereafter, cells were washed twice in FACS buffer and incubated with FITC anti-FLAG (Sigma) or Alexafluor 647 goat anti-human IgG (Southern Biotech) in FACS buffer for 30 min on ice. Live/Dead aqua fixable stain (Invitrogen) were utilized to assess viability. Data acquisition was performed on a BD LSRII Fortessa instrument (BD Biosciences) and analyzed by FlowJo software v10 (Tree Star, Inc.)
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I posted earlier today about a popular conservation 'christian' newspaper crowing to the world that Moderna was releasing a CCP vaccine, and was delighted to read your immediate response to the travesty being committee, in the guise of "public health".
"The authors of the study are both Merck and Moderna"… Since it deals with lung infection (which Covid-19 causes) it seems like a pretty good reference to what they are doing." (SARS triggered by extra-low-frequencies)
(Our lungs are where our wings attach… BREATH OF LIFE)
I was shocked/not-shocked to read in the last paragraph that a "GOAT anti-human buffer" is a part of the HEK293T cell Miolech process to bind the human DNA with the mRNA alien viral material they are crafting in the effort to roll out transhumanism and stop the human genetic bloodline.
Goat?
Really?
As always, your work is flawless. Thank you for the LIGHT you shine into the darkness.
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OK, so does this mean that it’s ethical to take the Pfizer vaccine but not the Moderna one?
That would be up to one’s individual conscience. Pfizer was tested on aborted fetal cells. Moderna’s was researched, developed, produced and tested on aborted fetal cells.
More information on the Pfizer vaccine would be helpful. I’m confused about why it is listed as ethical on your Covid chart if it was tested on fetal cells.
Pfizer/BioNTech was morally produced and contains no aborted fetal material. They did testing of the product on the HEK-293 cells but they are not part of the product, unlike the others listed in the red column on our website.
Thank you so much for all that you are doing, this site and the information it contains is a God-send. I am grateful.
Is the Moderna vaccine the one that contains the new technology that alters DNA?
Thanks again, and God bless!
No one knows yet whether or not the mRNA that is being used by Moderna may alter the vaccine recipient’s DNA. Long term studies should be done especially since this is brand new technology never used in a vaccine before.
I’m also confused. How can the Pfizer vaccine be “morally produced” if it was tested on aborted fetal cells? Is testing not part of the production process?
There are no aborted fetal cells used in the production of the Pfizer vaccine; they tested the completed product. This is completely unlike Moderna’s vaccine that used aborted fetal cells IN the spike protein production which is part of their vaccine and they have done extensive research, development and testing using aborted fetal cells as well.
Thank you for the prompt reply to my comment, that’s what I wanted to know – the Moderna vaccine *does* contain the new technology which raises the question that it could *potentially* alter human DNA but it has not been studied to prove whether it does so or not.
I’m having a hard time understanding why it is morally acceptable to test your vaccine on fetal cells.
Its not morally acceptable at all. Moderna’s vaccine was researched, developed, produced and tested using aborted fetal cells.
The Charlote Lozier Institute reports that Moderna used HEK293 only in testing, but development and production is abortion-free. LifeNews reported today that the Moderna vaccine is ethical. Of course the use of HEK293 in testing, means that it is not ethical, and I hope that they will clarify their report.
However, it would appear that one cannot say that the vaccine was “developed” and “produced” using aborted fetal cells. I think it would be wiser if just say that HEK293 was used in the test phase.
The science says otherwise and the facts presented show the truth.
I do wear mask(to avoid the dust(not Covid19) in air which is prevalent in our area) and I chew Black Seeds to avoid most all viruses, simply.
Thank you for this info.!!!! Could you write another article explaining Pfizer’s covid vaccine being tested in human aborted baby cells? Where could I find documentation on that? I am shocked that that happens! I didn’t know. And I’m sure there are many others that don’t know either. Maybe you could create an additional column on the vaccine charts you’ve created that’s entitled, “Finished vaccine tested on…”. Then you could show, with links, which ones test the finished vaccine in human aborted baby cells. That would be very helpful. Thank you for doing all this research!
Its listed under BioNTech/Pfizer – page 3 here: https://cogforlife.org/wp-content/uploads/CovidCompareMoralImmoral.pdf
This is excellent info, now please do the same for pfizer because they also used hek293 in testing, and where is the proof that Pfizer’s spike protein (synthetic, chemical, mRNA) wasn’t transfected using hek293 cells to help with the development of the ‘synthetic’ mRNA. All the articles I have seen say that Moderna and Pfizer use the same technology and are basically the same vaccine.
The information on both Pfizer and Moderna is on our website here: https://cogforlife.org/wp-content/uploads/CovidCompareMoralImmoral.pdf The proof is linked to the science documents showing the data. The two vaccines do use the same technology – but one chose to do it morally (Pfizer) using adult donor cells and the other (Moderna) chose aborted fetal in the construct of their vaccine. However, they both tested their vaccines on aborted fetal cells.
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Can you please engage Trent Horn and Catholic Answers in some fashion on this. They’re advising people that it’s completely acceptable to take at least Modernas vaccine with no caveat of grave cause and discussion with a Holy priest.
I would be hesitant to take any vaccine that has human cell in it. A cow cannot be given a vaccine that has cow cells in it because of the effect on the cow.
There’s so much information here, which is awesome and necessary, yet I am having trouble making sense of it all – I apologize for that as I am new to taking this all in and I thank you in advance for your patience.
I see two important issues here – whether/how aborted fetal cells have been used AND whether *new technology* (that has not been used before and not been adequately studied) has been employed that *may potentially* alter human DNA.
Would you mind clarifying which of the two – Pfizer and/or Moderna – use this new technology? I thought it was only Moderna. This is not the same question in my mind as to the use of aborted fetal cells.
Please let me know if I am missing something, which would not surprise me. :)
Thank you, and God bless!
In the case of Pfizer, the HEK-293 cells were used only in the final testing, whereas Moderna used them in the research, development, testing and production of their spike protein. Pfizer on the other hand, created their protein using K562 cells from an adult female donor. The cells in both vaccines are NOT IN the final product. Both of the vaccines use mRNA technology which has never been used in any vaccines before.
Both Pfizer and Moderna are using the mRNA technology. Pfizer did it morally (other than final testing) and Moderna did it immorally in their research, development, production and testing.
Thank you for showing me where to find the documentation showing that Pfizer uses human aborted baby cells to test their finished vaccine.
Do other vaccines, including vaccines routinely given to children, test their finished vaccine on human aborted baby cells? If they do, which ones? Where can I find documentation on that?
Thank you!
That would be impossible to find since testing is not publicly documented once the products are approved and on the market.
I still can’t understand how Pfizer’s is called moral if they tested the final product on HEK293. They didn’t have to, they could have used other cells. Until we take a firm stand on this they will continue to use these lines whenever it is convenient for them. The vaccine can’t just be a little bit immoral. In my view it’s all or nothing.
Thank you for all the time, effort, and expertise needed to understand and present this important information.
Do you happen to know BioNTec/Pfizer’s rationale for using cells of an aborted child for testing of their (ethically produced vaccine) final product? Is there some sort of practical benefit?
Unfortunately, the use of the HEK cell line for testing is widely done. The only practical benefit is economics.
I’m a little frustrated that CoG made a generalized decision to say that testing has no implication on ethics and would have preferred this little statement came out. Its one thing if there is an ongoing need for fetal cells and down the road further abortions, but it puts it into another category to create it and be able to replicate it without further fetal cells. This doesn’t make it right in my eyes but its much harder to convince someone of the ethics of it when in actuality there is no fetal cells in the vaccine but only genetic information.
Those who object to both would be consistent but by far the minority. Those who object to Moderna better object to Epogen and Procrit as well…
Where in the world did you get the idea that the use of aborted fetal cells in testing has no implication on ethics?? There is no need whatsoever to use aborted fetal cells but there is definitely a difference in the cells being used to create a product – which means profiting from the remains of an unborn child on an ongoing basis – or using those cells one time in the testing. Neither is right but there is definitely a moral difference.
Neither is right. But as long as the vaccine companies are making money from people taking the vaccine they will have no incentive to change their practices. They don’t care about our ethical objections, only our money. Walking away is the only logic they understand.
Thank you for answering my question about how to find out if other vaccines, like the childhood vaccines, are tested on human aborted baby cells. If testing is not publicly documented, how is there documentation on the testing of the Pfizer & Novavax covid vaccines that show they tested their finished vaccines on human aborted baby cells? I’m trying to get all my facts straight so when I tell others I will have answers.
The reason you can see testing is because Pfizer and Moderna are brand new and are not FDA approved yet. Testing is presented in their submissions to FDA as part of that approval process and those documents are easily found and available.
Pfizer created their protein using K562 cells from an adult female donor. Why couldn’t they test the final vaccine on another adult donor cells?
This link might be helpful in finding older vaccines information.
https://search.cdc.gov/search/index.html?query=Excipients%20
You have to download the very 1st pdf. Inside you will find all kinds of information. It’s a bit tricky though. There’s links to the FDA that you have to click on to get the other half of the story. When I went through it I was able to find several different vaccines and what cell lines were used in the development.
As far as morality goes, I would argue that putting animal cells like monkey, bat, bovine, etc… is somewhat immoral, or the very least, alarming.
If the link doesn’t work just go to the CDC website and type in the search bar “excipients” then download the 1st pdf. Adjuvants is another word that can be searched.
Great work by the way.