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Scientists are growing human brain tissue in living mice—could this make their welfare harder to assess?

What happens when scientists start changing the brain—the very system through which an animal's mental states are expressed in behavior?

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Researchers reported in Nature that they implanted human brain organoids—small structures grown from human stem cells—into the brains of living mice. The organoids survived, matured over time, and formed connections with the host mouse nervous system. This integration demonstrates that human-derived neural tissue can develop within an adult mammalian brain, raising questions about how such chimeric models should be evaluated for animal welfare.

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