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23 Jun 2017
Injecting human stem cells into mice creates brain architecture for disease research, but the mice remain mice and do not become super-intelligent hybrids.

Human brains are not being put into mice. And rats. That's important. I love it. I just love it. If you look into it, you can find articles about this. There are some tests that have been done wherein human stem cells are injected into mice in utero. And they do create some of the architecture of human brains within the mice. And the reason that they do this is because... There are a lot of diseases, Alzheimer's being one of them, there are many degenerative diseases that can't be studied in humans while the brain is alive. Right. It just would be impossible. But with mice, you can do it. Right. And it's kind of fucked up. It's ethically gray. But the important piece to take away from it is it's research that's going towards getting rid of horrifying diseases. Right. And that's a plus. That's what these ethical medical people will discuss. That, like, it sucks, and it's kind of weird that we're doing this, but at the end of the day, if we can get rid of Alzheimer's, that's a win for humanity. So, there's that. There have to be private conversations with those scientists where they're like... This is fucking crazy! It's wild. We're throwing this shit in a mouse's brain! Why are we doing this? I love it! Alex pretends, though, that it's like your brain is going in a mouse, and then you're going to see out of mice eyes. God, now I want that to be real! But it's not. It's not. They're still mice. No, I get that. They're 100% still mice. And there are guidelines in place where any mice that have human brain cells in them have to be killed within, like, two weeks.