At first glance, the mice in Pierre Vanderhaeghen’s lab in Leuven, Belgium, seem unremarkable. But inside their tiny heads, their cerebral cortex contains a mix of mouse and human neurons at two stages of development: Their native synapses are fully mature, but the connections formed from human cells are delayed and comparable to those of […]
When COVID-19 shut down labs worldwide, Jordan Farrell, then a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, faced a dilemma. His work on the distinct roles of dentate spikes and sharp wave ripples in the hippocampus demanded extensive neural recordings from multiple brain regions simultaneously—a daunting experimental setup in the best of times and nearly impossible during […]
