When the Salk researchers briefly described their experiments last November at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, bioethicists raised questions about what implants of human brain organoids would do to mice's intelligence, consciousness, and even their identity as mice. (scientificamerican.com)
Implanting human brain organoids in a mouse brain gives them everything they need to grow and develop. (scientificamerican.com)
Terskikh is co-senior author of a new study that examined the effect of chloroquine in human brain organoids and pregnant mice infected with the virus, and found the drug markedly reduced the amount of Zika virus in maternal blood and neural progenitor cells in the fetal brain. (sciencedaily.com)