Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough

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11 hours agoVictoria Gill,Science correspondent andKate Stephens,Senior science journalistGetty ImagesThe research has raised questions about what it means to alter the way laboratory animals think and feel Neuroscientists 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".

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