{
  "id": 8099353,
  "title": "Scientists Created Mice With Half-Human Brains. The Hybrid Animals Could Revolutionize Our Understanding of Neurological Disorders",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/scientists-created-mice-with-half-human-brains-the-hybrid-animals",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-17T20:16:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Smithsonian",
    "slug": "smithsonian",
    "url": "https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-created-mice-with-half-human-brains-the-hybrid-animals-could-revolutionize-our-understanding-of-neurological-disorders-180989518/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Our brains and their associated diseases are notoriously hard to study. So, researchers developed an animal model with a cortex—the brain’s outer layer—grown from human-derived cells",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}