Mice with human brain cells offer a tool to study disease. Ethicists ask: What's next?
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Researchers at Stanford University have genetically engineered mice to accept and function with human brain cells, creating part-human, part-mouse brains. The modified mice are intended to model neurological conditions such as cerebral palsy, schizophrenia, epilepsy, intellectual disability, and rare dementias. Ethicists are questioning whether these mice should receive different treatment.
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How it was reported
- NPR·Mice with human brain cells offer a tool to study disease. Ethicists ask: What's next?
Neuroscientists have made a major advance in modeling the human brain in mice, offering a new way to study conditions like cerebral palsy. Ethicists ask if it changes how these mice should be treated.
- The Guardian·Scientists create mice with part-human brains
Researchers hope to shed light on conditions such as schizophrenia, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability and rare forms of dementiaResearchers have created mice with half-human brains in an effort to understand and develop new treatments for disorders such as schizophrenia, epilepsy, ce...
- BBC News·Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough
Researchers at Stanford University genetically altered mice to be able to receive and function with human brain cells.
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