Audio long read: Hybrid brains – the ethics of transplanting human neurons into animals
Nature Podcast
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Human Nurons in a Living Disease Brain
Human nurons took their customary time to mature, between six and 12 months. This suggested that this prolonged development timing is incoded intrinsically in the nurons themselves. The team has also transplanted healthy human nurons into the brains of mice with a genetic predisposition to altsimus disease. That the huan nurons settled into a foreign brain and worked normally was surprising. It hints that cell transplants might be used to repair damaged brain circuits in the future.
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