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- I feel like it's going to be difficult to characterize how mental illness translates to mice, even if you get human cells in there. ("psychiatric diseases" = mental illness)by LoganDark
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11032-2
Developmental xenocortication using human-derived organoids in mice
- Forget Artificial Intelligence, _Real Intelligence_ is coming...
(Background material: https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Mice)
by jdalsgaard - Sounds like “the scret of NIMH” an animated movie from the 80s, where intelligent mice escape a science lab.by d--b
- Does this remind anyone of that novel Flowers for Algernon..?
- > The scientists said their work, published in the journal Nature, was carried out with independent ethical scrutiny.
oh, I guess there's nothing to be concerned about.
by bygosh - The article walks the headline back pretty quickly. Parts of human brains in mice becomes "pieces of brain-like tissue" made from skin cells and formed into "collections of connected, living cells" followed by a line on how there's "no indication that what's being created here are mice that can think like humans, or a human brain in a mouse body." and that the human cells started to look and function like the outer layer of the mouse's brain as opposed to looking or functioning like a part of a human brain.
It's still kind of neat though and I hope it's actually somehow useful for something.
by autoexec - Great news: we're excellent at curing mice of diseases. All this time we've been trying to find drugs that have the same effect in humans as they do in mice, but until now no one has had the insight or bravery to ask the question, "What if we just made people more mouse?" Exciting stuff.