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Human glia make smarter mice?
Human glia make smarter mice?
This is a fun article about the injection of human stem cells into early mouse pups.
The stem cells injected formed astrocytes that were more human like than mouse like and the outcome? Smarter mice. This brings up a slew of questions, the ethics of what is it to be a mouse, how human is a critter before it is considered a human, but also interestingly, does the neuron or the glial cell really determine how smart we are?
I can almost hear Glenn Hatton, smiling from the great beyond and still telling me "its all about the glia".
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