A map of part of a mouse brain, which is expected to be generalisable to people, could help scientists understand behaviours, consciousness and even what it means to be human ...

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Goldman is quick to state that the enhanced memory and learning performance of these human-mouse chimeras did not make the mice more human. “It’s still a mouse brain, not a human brain, but all the ...

Comparative analyses of mouse and human genomes have provided insight into our common features and have guided powerful genomic manipulations in the mouse to generate models of human pathologies.

“The human brain is another factor of 1,500 or so larger than a mouse brain, and so that brings a whole host … of technical and ethical barriers to doing that,” he said. However, it might be ...