Evoking Jeff Goldblum’s ‘The Fly’: Does growing human ‘brains-in-a-dish’ and creating chimeras cross a bioethical line?

Evoking Jeff Goldblum’s ‘The Fly’: Does growing human ‘brains-in-a-dish’ and creating chimeras cross a bioethical line?

Ricki Lewis | 
Bits of human brain growing in a lab dish can reveal a great deal about how a disease begins and ...
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Brain organoids ‘giving insight’ into origins of autism, epilepsy and schizophrenia

Simon Makin | 
Knowing how the human brain develops is critical to understanding how things can go awry in neurodevelopmental disorders, from intellectual ...
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Brain organoids becoming ‘more human’, forcing researchers to grapple with ethical concerns

Jordana Cepelewicz | 
Though no bigger than a pea, organoids hold enormous promise for improving our understanding of the brain: They can replicate ...
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Growing tiny brains for research: Should we ‘frantically panic’ that something might go awry?

Guillaume Thierry | 
As mini-brains become more advanced, some researchers are worried they'll develop consciousness ...
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Pea-sized mini brains just developed brain waves for the first time

Thiago Arzua | 
Mini-brains are just the size of a pea but capable of reproducing key brain functions. They are currently a hot research topic because scientists think they ...
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Rethinking Huntington’s: Disease may have origins in the womb

Sharon Begley | 
From the first days of the tiny lab-grown organs’ development, primitive “progenitor cells” romped out of their birthplaces in the ...
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Potential problem with lab-grown mini-brains: They’re ‘stressed-out and confused’

Laura Sanders | 
Brain cells grown into clumps in flasks are totally stressed-out and confused. Cells in these clumps have ambiguous identities and ...
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Brain organoids may have ‘critical’ research limitation: Imperfect modeling of human development

Arnold Kriegstein, Diana Kwon | 
Despite their potential, [brain] organoids still have some critical limitations. In a study presented [October 22] at the Society for Neuroscience meeting ...
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Tiny, lab-grown brains allow researchers to explore what makes humans different

Ryan Mandelbaum | 
Researchers are growing human, ape, and monkey brain tissue in the lab in order to understand what makes us different ...
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Animals enhanced with human brain cells—and robust levels of consciousness—create new ethical dilemmas

George Dvorsky | 
Neuroscientist Isaac Chen from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, along with his colleagues, has written ...
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