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Mackenzie Graham, Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford

Scientists are growing human brain tissue in living mice – could this make their welfare harder to assess?

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What happens when scientists start changing the brain – the very system through which an animal’s mental states are expressed in behaviour?

In a recent study published in Nature, researchers implanted human brain organoids – small, simplified structures grown from human stem cells – into the brains of living mice. Over time, these organoids developed and integrated with the mouse nervous system.

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