In Dr. Sergiu Pașca's research lab at Stanford University, the resident rats have clumps of human cells in their brains. Blow on a rat's whiskers and the human cells on the opposite side of its brain ...

In a breakthrough study providing evidence that it’s indeed possible for neurons of one species to form and function within the brain of another, Stanford University scientists have successfully ...

In a development that sounds fit for a horror film, scientists at Stanford University have transplanted human brain cells into rats. These human-rat brain hybrids could be used to study conditions ...