With hybrid brains, these mice smell like a rat Date: April 25, 2024 Source: Columbia University Irving Medical Center Summary: Mice lacking an olfactory system have had their sense of smell ...

If mice ever wonder what it’s like to experience the world as a rat, some are now able to live that dream, at least when it comes to the sense of smell. Researchers led by Columbia’s Kristin Baldwin ...

In another, they created mice with hybrid rat-mouse brains that could smell food using rat neurons. The research is “a big step in the field,” Andrew Crane, ...

This hybrid mouse-rat smell system can help scientists understand how flexible brains can be. Ben Throesch In other experiments, mice put rat cells to good use by sniffing out buried cookies .

NEW YORK, NY--If mice ever wonder what it’s like to experience the world as a rat, some are now able to live that dream, at least when it comes to the sense of smell. Researchers led by Columbia ...

Researchers Breed Mice With Hybrid Brains Containing Cells From Rats. In one experiment, rat neurons helped mice restore their senses of smell—the first time any animal has perceived the world ...

Rie Natsume and her collaborators have recently developed an innovative and cost-effective method for generating rats that ...

Rat sperm cells have grown inside sterile mice, and the technique used could lead to human-rat hybrids for biomedical research or help save endangered species.. Pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) can ...

The process involves creating a chimera, which is an artificial genetic hybrid of multiple animals—in this case, mice and rats. But past experiments with rat-mice chimera produced mouse sperm in ...

If mice ever wonder what it’s like to experience the world as a rat, some are now able to live that dream, at least when it comes to the sense of smell. Researchers led by Columbia’s Kristin Baldwin ...

Researchers led by Columbia University's Kristin Baldwin have created mice with hybrid brains—part mouse, part rat—that sense the odors of the world with their rat neurons.

If mice ever wonder what it’s like to experience the world as a rat, some are now able to live that dream, at least when it comes to the sense of smell. Researchers led by Columbia’s Kristin Baldwin ...