ScienceMouse model reportedly has a brain nearly half human by volume
A post credits Stanford researchers with implanting human neurons grown from reprogrammed skin cells into mice, and claims the animals responded to brain injury the same way human babies do.
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A post claims Stanford researchers created a mouse model with a brain nearly half human by volume and published the work in Nature. It says human neurons grown from reprogrammed skin cells were implanted into mice with deliberately hollowed-out cortexes, multiplied into millions and wired into the mouse brain. The post claims the mice responded to brain injury the same way human babies do, and asks whether the medical upside justifies the ethical concerns.
Mouse model reportedly has a brain nearly half human by volume
A post credits Stanford researchers with implanting human neurons grown from reprogrammed skin cells into mice, and claims the animals responded to brain injury the same way human babies do.