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Engineered mice give human brain organoids space to form working circuits
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Developmental xenocortication using human-derived organoids in mice
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Claim 1 of 6Not checkedStanford Medicine scientists transplanted self-organizing human cortical organoids into specially bioengineered mice whose cerebral cortex was mostly missing, creating a large cavity that supported survival and growth of the human tissue.View evidenceHide evidence
As statedalmost all their cerebral cortex was missing; the human tissue survived, thrived, grew
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Claim 2 of 6Not checkedThe transplanted human tissue developed working connections to the mice's brains and beyond to the spinal cord, and integration into circuits proceeded over time.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 3 of 6Not checkedThe new method is presented as a way to speed research into the biological causes of schizophrenia, epilepsy, profound autism, cerebral palsy, and related neurodevelopmental disorders, and to test interventions.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 4 of 6Not checkedIn a proof-of-concept experiment, exposing xenocortical mice to five hours of low oxygen caused substantial damage to the human-derived cortical tissue and behavior reminiscent of cerebral palsy.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 5 of 6Not checkedThe xenocortical mice's human brain tissue contained detectable von Economo neurons, a rare cell type previously seen only in postmortem tissue and not generated in culture.View evidenceHide evidence
As statedroughly one in every 90,000 cortical neurons
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Claim 6 of 6Not checkedThe paper is framed as a major advance built on earlier organoid and rat-transplant work from the same group, now extended by using cortex-depleted mice to reduce competition between human and rodent neurons.View evidenceHide evidence
As statedthree to six months after transplant; more than 90% by volume of the cortical tissue in the mice's brains was human
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