Human Organoids Grow to Occupy Most of Mouse Cortex in New Nature Paper
zakkohane · x · 2026-09-17
In a Nature paper, researchers including Kevin Kelley report creating 'xenocortical' mice, where human organoids are grown to occupy most of the mouse cortex—a step toward systems that causally model human neurobiology across scales, from molecular to behavioral.
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