Creepy squared: <\/p>\n
\nIn one of the most controversial scientific projects ever conceived, a group of university researchers in California\u2019s Silicon Valley is preparing to create a mouse whose brain will be composed entirely of human cells.<\/p>\n
Researchers at Stanford University have already succeeded in breeding mice with brains that are one per cent human cells.<\/p>\n
In the next stage they plan to use stem cells from aborted foetuses to create an animal whose brain cells are 100 per cent human. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
No, you did not misread. Stanford scientists are planning to make a mouse whose brain is composed of dead babies\u2019 brain cells. <\/p>\n
Rats of Nimh<\/a>, anyone?<\/p>\n
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