Mini brains, big questions: science is racing ahead of ethics Brain organoids are revolutionising research, but their growing complexity raises unsettling ethical questions.

#OrganoidModels —miniature, LabGrownClusters of cells that imitate RealOrgans

#BrainOrganoids' growing complexity raises unsettling EthicalQuestions

If organoids can process info or change their behaviour in response to it—do they gain #MoralStatus?

#BioEthics
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Lori Gruen and Susana Monsó have revised their SEP-entry on The Moral Satus of Animals, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-animal/

#sep #revised #ethics #animalRights #moralStatus #philosophy #etiikka #moraalifilosofia