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I'm reading a JCB paper that describes culturing cells in low-calcium medium to prevent adherens junction formation, and seriously. SERIOUSLY. This is in the methods section:

Normal human keratinocytes from newborn foreskin (strains z, kb, kc, and kd, passage 3-6) were cultured[...]

I know that all the cell lines and samples we use came from patients originally, but they are from patients who consented to having their cervical cancer or breast cancer biopsies used for research purposes.

NEWBORNS' FORESKINS? REALLY?
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