Ethical Issues in Cerebral Organoid Research

Autor: Gardar Arnason, Anja Pichl, Robert Ranisch
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. :1-3
ISSN: 1469-2147
0963-1801
Popis: About ten years ago, reports of lab-grown “mini brains” or “brains in a dish” appeared in the media, falling somewhere between the curious and the alarming. The trigger of these reports was a new method to grow three-dimensional neural tissue from human stem cells that recapitulates, to some degree, the early development of brain tissue. Despite their relatively small size and other limitations, such model systems capture in part the structure and functions of regions of the human brain and can also be combined to form so-called assembloids.
Databáze: OpenAIRE