fetus /oss/taxonomy/term/3763/all en 2019 Year in Review /oss/article/infographics/2019-year-review <p>Scroll to the bottom for links to the articles.</p> <p></p> Tue, 31 Dec 2019 16:29:54 +0000 Ada McVean B.Sc. 8059 at /oss You Inherit Part of Your Fingerprint from Your Parents /oss/article/did-you-know/you-inherit-part-your-fingerprint-your-parents <p>Our fingerprints are a one-of-a-kind pattern, so unique to an individual that even identical twins don’t share them. And yet I’m here to tell you that you inherit part of your fingerprint from your parents. Huh?</p> <p>If you look closely at your fingerprints, you’ll notice that their patterns are one of three main types: loops, whorls or arches.</p> Fri, 19 Jul 2019 16:22:30 +0000 Ada McVean B.Sc. 7836 at /oss Is It True That Perfumes Contain Aborted Fetal Tissue? /oss/article/test-you-asked/it-true-perfumes-contain-aborted-fetal-tissue <p>This is not to say that fetal material, specifically fetal cells, do not play a role in the manufacturing of some products. They often do. But it’s not as simple as vaccines containing crushed-up aborted fetuses.</p> <p>As David Gorski <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/aborted-fetal-tissue-and-vaccines-combining-pseudoscience-and-religion-to-demonize-vaccines-2/">explains for Science-Based Medicine</a>, “fear mongering about 'fetal parts' in vaccines is, not surprisingly, a distortion of the real situation, which is that the human cell lines are used to make some vaccines.”</p> Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:21:08 +0000 Ada McVean B.Sc. 7662 at /oss