Mice grown with rat brains to help study cross-species organ donation

Lots of of mouse pups with partial rat brains have been born from embryos made out of a mixture of mouse and rat cells, marking the primary time that the mind of 1 species has been grown in one other from the embryonic stage.

Over the previous decade, scientists have been experimenting with rising human organs inside different animals to deal with the worldwide organ donor scarcity. Most not too long ago, Miguel Esteban at Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Well being in China and his colleagues partially grew human …