A map of estimated nerve-fibre pathways in the brain of a mouse in which human brain cells had ‘survived, thrived and grew’ - Reuters/Sergiu Pasca Lab/Stanford University Human brain tissue has been ...

The idea of a mouse with a half-human brain might sound like something created in Dr Frankenstein's lab. But it has become a reality in California, where scientists from Stanford University have ...

We infer what animals experience from how they behave. But can we rely on those same inferences after substantially altering ...

Scientists have bioengineered mice whose brains contain working human cells, but they stress that they're not "mice that think like humans." In a study published in Nature, Stanford University ...

Understanding mental health disorders like schizophrenia and depression better, so we can treat patients suffering from these disorders better, is one of the most important aims of psychological ...