Scientists are implanting tiny HUMAN brains into rats

www.thesun.co.uk ^ | Updated: 8th November 2017, 3:26 pm | By Margi Murphy

[Red Badger]

Stanford University bioethicist says as the lab rats become more human-like they may one day be 'entitled to some kind of respect'

TINY human brains injected into rats have sparked a major ethical debate among scientists worried it may give the rodents some type of human consciousness.

Esteemed science ethicists claim the experiments might reach a point where the test lab rats will be "entitled to some kind of respect".

Advances in science have allowed experts to connect tiny human brains with that of a rat.

To do this, they created clumps of cells that behave similarly to human brains called organoids.

Several labs have inserted those organoids into rat brains, connected them to blood vessels and successfully grown physical links.

Medical mag Stat reported that when scientists shone a light into a rat's eye or stimulated the brain regions involved in vision, that the neurons in the implanted organoid fired up.

[reed13k]

My immediate thought is of the movies “Willard” and “Ben” from the 70s.

[Vaquero]

[glennaro]

Scientists are implanting tiny human brains into 'Rats

A change without a difference. (And by the way, where did they find all of these "tiny humans"? Sounds "size-ist" to me!)

[ifinnegan]

Fake news combined with reporting statements of idiots.

[BigEdLB]

Yes. Remember Ernest Borgnine was eaten by Ben. And Borgnine was a Republican.

[Red Badger]

Civil Rats Era.......................

[Red Badger]

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.

The Secret of NIMH won Best Animated Film of 1982 at the 10th annual Saturn Awards.

Great kids book and great kids movie.

[Stormdog]

‘entitled to some kind of respect’

I’ll tell ya’, I don’t get no respect.....
Rodney Dangerrat

[Responsibility2nd]

Tiny Human Brains?

No shortgage of those. For Sure.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Someone needs to remember what happened to Victor Frankenstein

[I want the USA back]

I didn’t have to read much to find out that it wasn’t human brains being implanted, but “clumps of cells that behave similarly to human brains “.
So once again, the headline is a fraud and is proven wrong by the content of the article. Capitalizing HUMAN doesn’t make it less dishonest.

[Calvin Locke]

Rats have the respect of PhD candidates. Each year, hundreds of theses are studies of rat whiskers - arguably, the most refined tactile information sensors known so far.

Gunning for patents in the robotics field, most likely.

[Red Badger]

It’s British tabloid-ism at its finest!..................

[SunkenCiv]

This may account for all the brain donors who vote Democrat. Thanks Red Badger.

[MWestMom]

Well, they “did” say they were implanting “tiny” human brains.

[GoldenPup]

Stanford University bioethicist says as the lab rats become more human-like they may one day be 'entitled to some kind of respect'

Some have even been elected to congress...but they're in disguise.

[Red Badger]

One even made it to POTUS in 2008....................

[GoldenPup]

Good one...and oh, so true.

[onedoug]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up6g0SDMJ7A