7 comments

  • theseamusjames 35 minutes ago
    Great news: we're excellent at curing mice of diseases. All this time we've been trying to find drugs that have the same effect in humans as they do in mice, but until now no one has had the insight or bravery to ask the question, "What if we just made people more mouse?" Exciting stuff.
  • yieldcrv 2 minutes ago
    > While mice with brains that are partly human might sound like a Kafkaesque experiment, the scientists said these are not "mice that think like humans".

    oh, thank god

  • zhaoziyuan2000 30 minutes ago
    Does this remind anyone of that novel Flowers for Algernon..?
  • bygosh 34 minutes ago
    > The scientists said their work, published in the journal Nature, was carried out with independent ethical scrutiny.

    oh, I guess there's nothing to be concerned about.

  • d--b 12 minutes ago
    Sounds like “the scret of NIMH” an animated movie from the 80s, where intelligent mice escape a science lab.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_NIMH

  • LoganDark 22 minutes ago
    I feel like it's going to be difficult to characterize how mental illness translates to mice, even if you get human cells in there. ("psychiatric disorders" = mental illness)
  • 0xDECAF 42 minutes ago
    ed...ward?