Human-rat brain hybrid shows a way to cure blindness

[u/rchaudhary]

https://www.freethink.com/health/human-mini-brains

[u/lookingforthebook]

Human-rat brain hybrid in February 5th for 2023 bingo? Anybody?

[u/CreepingTurnip → u/lookingforthebook]

Bleh right here upper right hand corner "Human-rat penis hybrid." So close.

[u/the_zelectro → u/CreepingTurnip]

I feel like there's a mean joke here, but I can't think of a public figure that warrants it...

[u/lookingforthebook → u/CreepingTurnip]

Don’t sweat it man it’s a long year ahead

[u/needescape_throwaway → u/lookingforthebook]

Yep, still waiting on my Elon Musk has thousands of tiny aliens controlling his body trying to navigate in humanity bingo.

[u/kekubuk]

I'm always up for Skaven.

[u/ZhugeSimp]

Squealer did nothing wrong

[u/spamholderman → u/ZhugeSimp]

What a fucking trip that novel/show was

[u/JOHNREDMAN_88]

I’m more worried about the Human-rat hybrid who now has 2020 vision.

[u/RenegadeReddit]

Somebody tell Mr. Beast.

[u/jleonardbc]

Rat-to-two-eye

[u/Remarkable-Whole2600 → u/jleonardbc]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh Noice

[u/NoPossibility]

Do you want Chuds? Cause that’s how you get Chuds.

[u/upyoars]

transplanting a hybrid brain into a real HUMAN? how dangerous and weird is that? theres so much we dont know about what else could happen as a result of that. maybe its perfectly fine and incredible even but it just feels so... eww

[u/d0ctorzaius → u/upyoars]

Neurons are neurons, it's the overall circuitry that matters. Based on the article they're using human cell-based organoids to cure rat blindness, not the other way around. When this tech gets to human trials it'll be human organoids transplanted into human brains

[u/BurningPenguin → u/upyoars]

transplanting a hybrid brain into a real HUMAN?

Would be an improvement for some people /s

[u/nicuramar → u/upyoars]

transplanting a hybrid brain into a real HUMAN? how dangerous and weird is that?

Well, it’s completely impossible.

[u/Spare-Difference-812]

What about death?

[u/BobRobot77 → u/Spare-Difference-812]

Lobster-human hybrid.

[u/serrrenitynow]

This is just big cheese trying to get us to buy more of their products.

[u/oxymoronisanoxymoron]

No thank you I've seen enough

[u/the_zelectro]

Science has gone too far

[u/locri → u/the_zelectro]

It's not a conscious being until it has the mind for it, a blank human brain doesn't have person hood because it's unlikely to view itself as a person or even view or perceive at all considering it hasn't learned to use those stimuli.

Don't freak out but... You are more than your body. You would be a completely different person if you were raised differently, with a different language, with different ideas and after this you will have different reactions. It then goes to follow, without any brain activity (ever) then this might not even be a person!

This synthetic brain has never really been turned "on" at least not in a way that allows it to perceive the wider world and therefore be imprinted by the wider world through perceiving it.

Anyway, just my take on the ethics of this.

[u/Willinton06 → u/locri]

I mean, if this can cure blindness I don’t give a shit about ethics, we’re not making chili out of African children here, this is not some genocidal razzle dazzle, it’s just a rat with extra steps

[u/Platypuslord]

All hail the human-rat brain overlord.

[u/ggtsu_00]

Well the Ninja Turtles aren't going to train themselves...

[u/Citizen_Kong]

Anybody else getting The Secret of Nimh vibes from this?

[u/Dreenar18]

Boy, some people really want Skaven to exist, don't they?

[u/Remarkable-Whole2600]

It followed Mr.Beast?

[u/Cryptoismygame]

Human cloning is outlawed due to ethical reasons but human-rat mutations are legit..