The pineal gland of the human brain is where the drug dmt is formed, can it mean something?

Wikipedia has a List of Christian Nobel laureates, but I can't find a list of great medical discoveries made by or even medical drugs created by religious people (or by Christian people) I am not looking for some sort of exhaustive list of minor medical discoveries and inventions. I am looking for a some sort of list of major medical discoveries, inventions, innovations, as one can not seem to be found! I mean discoveries that are more or less on the level of these discoveries: [Timeline of medicine and medical technology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_medicine_and_medical_technology) .

I wonder How should we react facing a disease? Should we fight against a disease? I mean, to seek for healthcare.(Our body already do that) Do diseases have a purpose? Albert Einstein refused to get healthcare , although there were treatment options for his disease > When asked if he wanted to undergo surgery, Einstein refused, saying, > "I want to go when I want to go. It is tasteless to prolong life > artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it > elegantly."

God is all good. He came to earth as Jesus Christ to die for our sins and give us an example of a perfect life to attempt to follow. Medical technologies take many forms. Some, for example antibiotics, are considered unambiguously to be a moral good. Others, for example gene therapy, are considered questionable because of their nature, with some claiming them to be "Playing God" and therefore sinful. I interpret this to mean that they are bad because they are more like the sort of thing God does. What is the logic here? It seems to me that anything that is like what God does must be inherently good, because that is what God is.

I looked through the [CMF website](https://www.cmf.org.uk/resources/publications/content/?context=article&id=27130) at their Briefing paper [When demand outstrips supply: A Christian view of the ethics of healthcare resource allocation during the COVID-19 pandemic](http://admin.cmf.org.uk/pdf/When_demand_outstrips_supply-COVID19_briefing_paper.pdf) : > “The British Medical Association (BMA) has recently produced guidance > around the ethical issues presented by the COVID-19pandemic.8 NICE has > also produced a rapid guideline for adult critical care during the > pandemic, which includes guidance for decision-making around > escalation. 9 In addition, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has > issued guidance, in conjunction with other stakeholders such as the > General Medical Council, the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, the > Intensive Care Society, royal colleges and faculties.10 As Christian > doctors, we must consider how we can respond to the ethical challenges > posed. Here we will attempt to consider some of the issues involved, > and how to think about them biblically, using Beauchamp and Childress’ > widely recognised four pillars of medical ethics11 as a framework.” However, it must be too soon for a briefing paper on whether any of the current seven Covid-19 vaccinations produced have utilised cell-lines from aborted foetuses. The matter of demand for vaccines was not included. Then I looked at a tagged blog, posted 20 November 2020, which sounded promising, [*COVID-19 vaccines: the wider ethical questions for Christians*](https://cmfblog.org.uk/2020/11/20/covid-19-vaccines-the-wider-ethical-questions-for-christians/) . Alas, no mention was made of the ethical issue I wish to explore. Some success came via a contact working professionally in the realms of Christian ethics. He sent a pdf of an article written by a colleague of his in a Catholic journal, *Anscombe Bioethics Centre – Friends’ Newsletter, Summer 2020, Issue 47.* (His link to the pdf will not open when I copy it.) Dr Helen Watt, Senior Research Fellow of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, wrote the article, pp 9-12. > “… Vaccines are normally, though not always,4 produced in living > cells. While they can be generated (as with some COVID-19 vaccines in > the making) in cells derived from ethically uncontentious sources such > as insects,5 tobacco plants,6 and hamster ovaries,7 they can also be > produced in cell-lines made from tissue derived from an aborted unborn > child. One such cell-line used in COVID-19 vaccine research (including > a project of the University of Oxford8 ) is the HEK 293 cell-line > modified from tissue taken from the kidney of an unborn child aborted > probably in 1972, while another is the PER C6 cell-line from the > retinal tissue of an 18-week baby aborted in 1985.” **I wish to know both ethical considerations involved and how to identify which Covid-19 vaccinations might have such ethically questionable ‘ingredients’.** I will not go to popular media outlets for this as a huge amount of disinformation is being bandied around. This question is addressed to Christians who have ethical compunctions against any use of aborted foetuses, which transcends denomination. I note this related question indicates deep concern but I seek to know how to find out if that's being used with some vaccines. Edit: this question become more important since the Church has now made a statement regarding the newest vaccine from Johnson and Johnson. See this

**Obviously no one should take any medical advice from StackExchange, but from a purely theological/canon-law perspective:** What does Catholic teaching or canon law say about using medicine developed from cells taken from an aborted fetus? Is using such medication compatible with the teachings on human dignity and the origin of life? Question inspired by a recent *Guardian* article on the drug Regeneron, headlined 'Covid drug given to Trump developed using cells derived from aborted fetus' : > The stem cells used to develop the drug are known as HEK-293T cells, a line of cells used in laboratories. The cells were originally derived from an embryonic kidney after an elective abortion performed in the Netherlands in the 1970s.