Beyond consciousness: Ethical, legal, and social issues in human brain organoid research and application.
European journal of cell biology March 1, 2025 Masanori Kataoka, Takuya Niikawa, Naoya Nagaishi et al. 22 citations
This study aims to provide a comprehensive review of the ethical, legal and social issues in human brain organoid research, with a view to different types of research and applications: in vitro research, transplantation into non-human animals, and biocomputing. Despite the academic and societal attention on the possibility that human brain organoids may be conscious, we have identified diverse...