IMPORTANT DISEASE MODEL. “In addition to studying learning and memory, this human/mouse chimera approach can be used to study uniquely human disorders, and this work is now in progress. “Similarly, we have established mice chimerized with human glia derived from patients with Huntington’s disease,” Goldman says.”
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