Fresh urgency in mapping out ethics of brain organoid research
- Written by Julian Koplin, Resarch Fellow in Biomedical Ethics, Melbourne Law School and Murdoch Children's Research Institute, University of Melbourne
Researchers have grown groups of brain cells in the lab – known as 'organoids' – that produce brain waves resembling those found in premature infants.from www.shutterstock.com Scientists have become increasingly adept at creating brain organoids – which are essentially miniature human brains grown in the laboratory from stem...
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