Kenneth T. Norris Prof of Psychiatry @Stanford; Uytengsu Director of @BrOrganogenesis; Physician-Scientist; Seeking to understand human brain assembly & disease
Today in 🤯 science: A team led by @Sergiu_P_Pasca engineered mice to be missing a large swath of their brains. Next, they transplanted human brain organoids, which grew and filled in the void. They're still mice, but with a human-dominated cortex.