Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough
3 sources covered this · see comparison → ⚠ Left-onlyIt handles higher level thinking, memory and senses.The researchers then used skin cells taken from humans and "reprogrammed" them, so they grew into pieces of brain-like tissue. And as neuroscientist Dr Ilary Allodi put it, scans of these human-mouse brains look "a bit messy". "You're keeping the human program inside the mouse environment – like the mouse is an incubator," she told BBC News.These mice, which are engineered and reared under strict ethical and welfare guidelines, will most likely be used in a small number of labs for studies of a few, very specific brain disorders.
- ▪It handles higher level thinking, memory and senses.The researchers then used skin cells taken from humans and "reprogrammed" them, so they grew into pieces of brain-like tissue.
- ▪And as neuroscientist Dr Ilary Allodi put it, scans of these human-mouse brains look "a bit messy".
- ▪"You're keeping the human program inside the mouse environment – like the mouse is an incubator," she told BBC News.These mice, which are engineered and reared under strict ethical and welfare guidelines, will most likely be used in a small
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- ▪ Scientists create mice with part-human brains — The Guardian — Science
- ▪ Scientists Fuse Human Neurons Into the Brains of Mice — NYT — Science
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Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthroughImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The research has raised questions about what it means to alter the way laboratory animals think and feel ByVictoria Gill, Science correspondent and Kate Stephens, Senior science journalistPublished4 minutes agoNeuroscientists in the US have successfully adapted mice to have functioning human cells inside their own brains.The researchers hope that potential treatments for psychiatric and neurodevelopmental diseases that only occur in humans could now be tested on the laboratory rodents.While mice with brains that are partly human might sound like a Kafkaesque-experiment, the scientists said these are not "mice that think like humans".The animals are genetically engineered - and surgically…
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