Mon Feb 28, 2022 – 3:07 pm EST
SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (LifeSiteNews) — New research papers have been published stemming from government-funded “humanized mice” experiments at the University of Saskatchewan, with Canadian taxpayers on the hook for controversial medical research using the organs of aborted babies.
Dr. Kerry Lavender is an Assistant Professor Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology at the university’s College of Medicine, where her official bio identifies humanized mice as one of her areas of focus, crediting her with “develop[ing] the TKO-BLT humanized mouse model for the discovery and evaluation of HIV-1 therapeutics and HIV-1 cure strategies” in conjunction with the United States’ National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Such experiments, which have been a subject of controversy for years in the U.S., entail implanting human fetal tissue and stem cells into mice to give the animals more human-like immune systems for the purpose of testing drugs.
Vote Family reports that in 2020, Lavender received $317,258 in grant money from the federal Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) for more humanized-mice studies, this time involving the grafting of human fetal lung patches subcutaneously onto the shoulders of
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