But some food companies are using cell lines that were originally derived from human fetuses in order to develop new food products.

FORBES: Biotech's Fear Factor

So far the antiresearch crowd has forced the company to close a small operation that distributed primates in the U.K. Remarkably, antivivisectionists have not pursued Foster in the U.S. A bigger challenge to preclinical research may be to beat out such competitors as Covance, which originally specialized in human clinical trials, and MDS, a provider of contract drug discovery services.

FORBES: Magazine Article

One of the hot areas of research since the human genome was originally sequenced has been genome-wide association studies.

ECONOMIST: Human genomics