STAT | Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine Follow STAT+: Scientists made mice with half a brain. Then they filled them with human organoids Scientists have made mice with half a brain, then filled them with human organoids — possibly opening new avenues for research but also raising ethical issues. https://www.statnews.com/2026/09/16/human-brain-organoids-neuro-chimeric-mice-study-published-nature/ statnews.com