{"id":115493,"date":"2019-10-21T01:01:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T23:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/10\/21\/scientists-may-have-crossed-ethical-line-in-growing-human-brains\/"},"modified":"2019-10-21T01:01:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T23:01:10","slug":"scientists-may-have-crossed-ethical-line-in-growing-human-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=115493","title":{"rendered":"Scientists &#039;may have crossed ethical line&#039; in growing human brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Debate needed over research with \u2018potential for something to suffer\u2019, neuroscientists sayNeuroscientists may have crossed an \u201cethical rubicon\u201d by growing lumps of human brain in the lab, and in some cases transplanting the tissue into animals, researchers warn.The creation of mini-brains or brain \u201corganoids\u201d has become one of the hottest fields in modern neuroscience. The blobs of tissue are made from stem cells and, while they are only the size of a pea, some have developed spontaneous brain waves, similar to those seen in premature babies. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2019\/oct\/21\/scientists-may-have-crossed-ethical-line-in-growing-human-brains\" target=\"_blank\">Scientists &#039;may have crossed ethical line&#039; in growing human brains<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debate needed over research with \u2018potential for something to suffer\u2019, neuroscientists sayNeuroscientists may have crossed an \u201cethical rubicon\u201d by growing lumps of human brain in the lab, and in some cases transplanting the tissue into animals, researchers warn.The creation of mini-brains or brain \u201corganoids\u201d has become one of the hottest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}