From Ian Miller
Ian_Miller@bifroest.demon. co.uk
Feedback (3 January),
writing about the supply of foreskins for medical
research, asks: “Has [William] Eaglestein done an unusual deal with the local
rabbi, by any chance?”
No, merely a quite mundane arrangement with the local maternity hospital. In
the US the majority of males are circumcised at birth, irrespective of religion.
There is an ample supply of infant foreskins and they are the main source of
cell cultures for human cell research.
