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Human-mouse hybrid hailed by top scientists as the most human yet

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A human-mouse hybrid has been hailed as the most human chimera yet, according to scientists. Researchers who created the hybrid embryo containing both human and mouse cells found that the human cells "learned" from their mouse neighbours, and developed much more quickly than they normally would.

The hybrid embryo – called a chimera by scientists – contains around 4% human cells. They claim that represents the largest proportion of human cells ever combined in a chimera.

Humans develop in the womb much more slowly than mice, but the effect of being combined with the embryonic mouse cells accelerated the human cells’ development, they added.

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