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Karen Weintraub
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Outing myself as a science nerd, I was fascinated by a study out this morning in Nature. Stanford researchers replaced the cortex of a mouse — fully half of its brain by volume — with human cells. The researchers plan to use it as a model for diseases like frontotemporal dementia and genetic forms of autism that have been impossible to study in a living brain. I have the details here.

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Karen Weintraub
Deputy Editor, Endpoints News
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by Karen Weintraub

“There is now a mouse, the cor­tex of which is filled with hu­man cells. We can’t quite call that a mouse, and we cer­tain­ly can’t...

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Novo\'s new look (Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix/Sipa via AP Images)
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by Andrew Dunn

An­throp­ic is deep­en­ing ties with the Dan­ish drug­mak­er No­vo, in the lat­est gain for the tech gi­ant's life sci­ences busi­ness.

In a Wednes­day re­lease...

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