But why

Hey, I’ve seen this show!

“Gee, Brain. What are we going to do tonight?

The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world.”

Has the world collectively abandoned ethics?

Here comes “The Secret of NIHM”

In previous work, the Stanford team transplanted human neurons into rat brains. The tissue took root and wired into the animals’ brain circuits, but there was too little room for the human tissue to grow very much.

To solve the problem, the researchers genetically engineered mice to stunt the growth of key brain regions, the cerebral cortex and hippocampus. Surprisingly, the mice survived because the remaining parts of the brain took on new roles. While the mice look normal, they are cautious on their feet and more forgetful.

Uh, hmm, I guess since people are into building torment nexi lately this just makes sense. They talk about growing human brains in mice like it’s old hat, and boy howdy we sure are getting better at it!

Quickly veering into the “just don’t do it” category but the kid in me really wants a terrarium filled with mice that wear primitive clothing and hunt with spears.

Presumably to make them better at playing doom.

Thanks, we needed this new potential nightmare

I think I’ve seen this horror movie.

Wat

Yea, this might as well happen.

You know as insane as this sounds, everything is relative. So… with that in mind, I’m gonna say this is still significantly less disturbing than the “cyborg cockroaches with syringes” story that made it to Lemmy last week.

So you know what, fine. Human brain mice, go for it.