By Jose Trasancos, CEO, Children of God for Life - Fr. Nicanor Austriaco and others have speculated that HEK-293 may have been established from cells taken from a miscarriage. That sounded like hogwash when I heard it and I started doing a little reading. A little reading turned into a bit more, and then a bit more... as I have spent some time on this after Fr. Nicanor Austriaco openly speculated that the HEK-293 cell line may have been developed using tissue from a miscarriage... I’ll lead with the conclusion. His statement is nonsense. ...