SciFriday: Human Brain Cells in Rats

Scientists have implanted human brain organoids--clumps of human brain cells--into rats to see if they would communicate with the animals' brains. They did. This has profound theological and ethical implications.

Also: Rev. Dr. Robert Bennett, author of I Am Not Afraid: Demon Possession and Spiritual Warfare, explains more about the practice of famadihana--exhuming and dancing with dead ancestors--among the natives of Madagascar, which is contributing to the spread of deadly pneumonic plague.