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  "id": 7816815,
  "title": "Scientists create mice with part-human brains",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/scientists-create-mice-with-part-human-brains",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-16T15:21:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Science",
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    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/sep/16/mice-part-human-brains-research"
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  "summary": "Researchers hope to shed light on conditions such as schizophrenia, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability and rare forms of dementia Researchers have created mice with half-human brains in an effort to understand and develop new treatments for disorders such as schizophrenia, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability and rare forms of dementia. The scientists transplanted…",
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      {
        "outlet": "ScienceDaily",
        "title": "Scientists recreated what mice saw from brain activity alone",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/scientists-recreated-what-mice-saw-from-brain-activity-alone",
        "published": "2026-09-16T12:33:18.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Live Science",
        "title": "Scientists shrank mice's brains and replaced the missing tissue with human 'organoids'",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/scientists-shrank-mices-brains-and-replaced-the-missing-tissue-with",
        "published": "2026-09-16T15:00:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "ScienceAlert",
        "title": "Scientists Grew Human Brain Tissue Inside Mice. Here's What Happened.",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/scientists-grew-human-brain-tissue-inside-mice-heres-what-happened",
        "published": "2026-09-16T15:00:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "STAT News",
        "title": "STAT+: Scientists made mice with half a brain. Then they filled them with human organoids",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/stat-scientists-made-mice-with-half-a-brain-then-they-filled-them",
        "published": "2026-09-16T15:00:00.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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