Great news: we're excellent at curing mice of diseases. All this time we've been trying to find drugs that have the same effect in humans as they do in mice, but until now no one has had the insight or bravery to ask the question, "What if we just made people more mouse?" Exciting stuff.
Does this remind anyone of that novel Flowers for Algernon..?
> The scientists said their work, published in the journal Nature, was carried out with independent ethical scrutiny.<p>oh, I guess there's nothing to be concerned about.
> While mice with brains that are partly human might sound like a Kafkaesque experiment, the scientists said these are not "mice that think like humans".<p>oh, thank god
Sounds like “the scret of NIMH” an animated movie from the 80s, where intelligent mice escape a science lab.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_NIMH" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_NIMH</a>
I feel like it's going to be difficult to characterize how mental illness translates to mice, even if you get human cells in there. ("psychiatric disorders" = mental illness)
ed...ward?