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    Brainstorming the ethics of neuroscience research in the age of organoids

    by Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times Apr 27, 2018 4 minutes

    Could a clump of interlocking brain cells in a Petri dish ever experience self-awareness? Can you make a mouse or a monkey partly human by implanting human stem cells in its brain? If pieces of a dead person's brain are reanimated in a lab, is the patient still completely dead?

    Questions like these are being raised by advancing techniques at the cutting edge of neuroscience. Far-fetched though they may seem, they are forcing scientists to wrap their heads around what it takes to be a human brain.

    Neuroscientists may not yet be creating conscious mini-brains in their labs. But that prospect, while distant, is real. And

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