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In a Scientific First, Mice Engineered With Rat Neurons Show Advanced Sensory Skills


Researchers at Columbia University have engineered mice with part-rat, part-mouse brains that allow them to smell as rats do. This breakthrough demonstrates the brain's capacity to integrate foreign cells and could advance our understanding of and ability to treat human brain diseases. If mice ev

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