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May 10, 2023 Can Tiny Brain Tissues Legally Be a Person? Researchers Say Not Yet Should a “Brain Organoid” be treated as a person by law? (LAIMAN-ARIGA/Kyoto University the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology) Grown in labs, human brain organoids are cultivated from stem cells, feed on nutrient broth and serve as a model of human brain development in miniature. Their growth and structure mimic portions of real brains, allowing scientists to better investigate the origins and potential treatments of neural diseases. How similar are they to actual human brains, though? Are they close enough to be considered people in their own right? The question is complicated in myriad ethical and moral ways, but researchers based in Japan and Taiwan propose that the legal lens may prove critical when understanding the potential personhood of human brain organoids. They published their argument for a legal framework to guide the conversation on April 3 in the Journal of Law a

April 18, 2023 Scientists Are Not Making “Thinking” Brains in Their Laboratories New study discusses the importance of scientists and ethicists working with media to properly depict the potential of brain organoids. © Kanon Tanaka ASHBi has published an essay on how media and researchers’ portrayal of brain organoids are misleading and possibly detrimental to this young field of research The headlines achieved their goals. People eagerly clicked on titles like “Tiny human brain grown in lab has eye-like structures that ‘see’ light” or “Mini brain organoids grown in lab mature much like infant brains”. To the unfamiliar, these claims may suggest scientists are growing miniature brains that can grow and think. In reality, scientists are using stem cells to grow structures that develop like the brain, but brain organoids are far from anything like the brains that grow in our bodies. The way the media speaks and writes of these scientific advances is alarming bioethicists like Dr. Tsutomu