{"id":84970,"date":"2026-07-29T18:02:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T22:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84970"},"modified":"2026-07-29T18:03:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T22:03:51","slug":"fauci-directly-funded-university-experiments-attaching-aborted-baby-scalps-to-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/fauci-directly-funded-university-experiments-attaching-aborted-baby-scalps-to-rats\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauci Directly Funded University Experiments Attaching Aborted Baby Scalps to Rats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Lifenews.com:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci bears direct responsibility for approving taxpayer funding of experiments at the University of Pittsburgh that grafted scalps from aborted babies onto the backs of laboratory rats, pro-life investigators charged Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The research, published in the journal Scientific Reports in 2020, used full-thickness skin from the scalps of babies aborted at 18 to 20 weeks of pregnancy\u2014roughly five months gestation\u2014to create \u201chumanized\u201d mice and rats for studying the human immune system. Photographs accompanying the study show the grafted tissue growing tufts of fine baby hair on the animals.\u00a0Federal records confirm that F<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2021\/05\/06\/anthony-fauci-gave-scientists-over-400000-to-make-humanized-mice-with-scalps-from-aborted-babies\/\">auci\u2019s NIAID provided approximately $430,000 in grants to the University of Pittsburgh<\/a> researchers in 2018 and 2019 for the project. Additional NIH support was also listed. Daleiden noted that Fauci told Congress the work proceeded \u201cwith the appropriate oversight and guidelines,\u201d yet later copied a media headline into his personal notes disputing any personal role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Lifenews.com: Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci bears direct responsibility for approving taxpayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}