In Dr. Sergiu Pașca's research lab at Stanford University, the resident rats have clumps of human cells in their brains. Blow on a rat's whiskers and the human cells on the opposite side of ...

The Stanford researchers attempted to address this by running a battery of tests to compare the memory and anxiety level of animals that received the human brain organoids versus regular lab rats.

When lab-grown clumps of human neurons are transplanted into newborn rats, they grow with the animals. The research raises some tricky ethical questions. Human neurons transplanted into a rat’s ...

Think of a future where injuries heal faster, diseases are cured more effectively, and lab-grown meat is a reality ... mimic ...

During his remarks in a Senate hearing in January, Senator Brian Schatz railed against the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. Schatz stated, "He wants to ...

The approach involves transplanting a cluster of living human brain cells from a dish in the lab to the brain of a newborn rat, a team from Stanford University reports in the journal Nature.

Many experiments grow human nerve cells in lab dishes. But a new study enlists some real estate that’s a bit more unconventional: the brain of a rat. Implanted clusters of human neurons grow ...

In the lab, scientists can nudge these cells down ... Deep inside the rat’s brain, human and rat cells connected in the thalamus, the area critical for sleep, consciousness, learning, memory ...

While they didn’t become Michelin chefs like in “Ratatouille,” the lab rats would lick spouts in search of water whenever their human neurons were activated. Pasca deemed the creation “the ...