Dr. Kerry Lavender works as an assistant professor at the University of Saskatchewan where she received two grants totaling $317,258 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to give lab rats human immune systems. Lavender uses the lungs from aborted babies to create humanized lab rats and conduct experiments on.
[…] creates BLT-L (engrafted human fetal bone marrow, liver and thymus with human fetal lung organoids) mice.