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Wednesday, March 16, 2005

OF MICE AND MEN

Mice receive human brain cells ... start acting irrationally

Stanford University scientists have injected human brain cells into mouse foetuses, creating a strain of mice that were approximately "1 per cent human".
Project head, molecular biologist Irving Weissman, is considering a follow-up that would produce mice whose brains are 100% human.

[Cue maniacal laughter ...]