The ethics of growing brains in labs

[Still Waters]

“I have never seen so many brains out of their heads before!” declares Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr, the world-renowned neurosurgeon played by Steve Martin who has a love affair with a brain in a jar in the 1983 movie, The Man with Two Brains.

Thirty five years on, the prospect of falling for a disembodied brain is still looking slim, but researchers have made such progress in growing and maintaining human brain tissue in the lab that a group of scientists, lawyers, ethicists and philosophers have called for an ethical debate about the work.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/25/growing-brains-in-labs-why-its-time-for-an-ethical-debate

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Like the article suggests this kind of research is crucial to understanding neurological disorders and mental illness of which we know so little about.The quest for knowledge in specifac areas will always push boundries. As long as we maintain common sense and push forward break throughs could be found and change millions of lives