Mice with Human Neurons Raise Ethical Questions
TL;DR
Researchers created mice whose brains contain millions of human neurons, a breakthrough for studying brain disorders outside the human body, but it also spurs ethical debates and calls for new guidelines as scientists monitor behavior and function.
- These Mice Have Partly Human Brains The New York Times
- Developmental xenocortication using human-derived organoids in mice Nature
- Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough BBC
- Stanford Medicine team creates advanced model for studying brain development, disorders med.stanford.edu
- Mice with human brain cells offer a tool to study disease. Ethicists ask: What’s next? NPR
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