Researchers at Stanford University genetically altered mice to be able to receive and function with human brain cells.

Scientists are always thinking up crazy experiments to push our knowledge forward, and injecting human brain cells into mice ...

Stanford grew human brain tissue inside mice, creating living neural models that could transform drug testing for epilepsy, ...

The animals may help reveal the causes of brain disease in people and point the way to treatments. But researchers already ...

Scientists have successfully replaced the cortex of genetically modified mice with lab-grown human brain tissue. The ...

Research into human-animal chimeras could have a therapeutic payoff, but the work brings up thorny ethical questions.

For decades, the prevailing model held that a single kind of progenitor, or precursor, cell gave rise to the entire brain.

Researchers in the field are right to focus on biosafety, ethics and the involvement of patient groups and the public.

Scientists have found that the human brain develops from two distinct cellular systems, suggesting that evolution fused together two ancient nervous systems with very different jobs. The discovery ...

Neuroscientists have made a major advance in modeling the human brain in mice, offering a new way to study conditions like ...

X enotransplantation is the insertion of an organ from one species into another. When the organ is an animal’s and the ...

(Alfred Pasieka/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) The brain is an immeasurably complex organ, and we're only just ...