" Many disorders such as autism and schizophrenia are likely uniquely human, " Pasca said.

“自闭症和精神分裂症等许多疾病很可能是人类独有的。”

Dr. Sergiu Pasca of Stanford University in California was the lead writer of a study describing the work.

加州斯坦福大学的塞尔吉奥·帕斯卡博士是描述这项工作的一项研究的主要作者。

Research that does not involve taking tissue out of the human brain is a " promising" area for trying to deal with these conditions, Pasca added.

帕斯卡还说，不涉及从人脑中取出组织的研究是试图应对这些疾病的一个“有前途的”领域。

Pasca says that his team's organoid transplants didn't cause problems such as seizures or memory deficits in the rats, and didn't seem to change the animals' behaviour significantly.

Pasca 说，他的团队进行的器官移植并没有引起大鼠癫痫或记忆缺陷等问题，似乎也没有显著改变动物的行为。

Pasca, who is a professor at the Stanford School of Medicine, said this is the first time these organoids have been placed into the brains of baby rats.

斯坦福大学医学院教授帕斯卡说，这是第一次将这些类器官移植到幼鼠的大脑中。

Mice don't live as long as rats, so Pasca and his colleagues hoped that because newborn rat pups' brains are more plastic than those of adult animals, that they would be better able to receive the new cells.

小鼠的寿命不如大鼠长，所以 Pasca 和他的同事们希望，由于新生大鼠仔的大脑比成年大鼠的大脑更具可塑性，所以它们能够更好地接收新细胞。

But when they examined the animals' brains at the end of that time, they saw that the integration had been so successful that it was almost like adding " another transistor to a circuit" , Pasca said at a 10 October press conference.

不过，Pasca 在10月10日的新闻发布会上说，当他们在实验结束后检查这些动物的大脑时，他们发现这种融合非常成功，几乎就像在电路中增加了“另一个晶体管”。