An Ethical Analysis of Human Cerebral Organoids

Human cerebral organoids are three-dimensional neural tissues with similar structure and biological function to human brain. Human cerebral organoids can be used to study human brain development, disease mechanisms, and drug screening. However, in vitro human cerebral organoids have the risk of cons...

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Main Author: Bin HUANG
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Language:zho
Published: Editorial Office of Medicine and Philosophy 2025-05-01
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Online Access:https://yizhe.dmu.edu.cn/article/doi/10.12014/j.issn.1002-0772.2025.10.03
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description Human cerebral organoids are three-dimensional neural tissues with similar structure and biological function to human brain. Human cerebral organoids can be used to study human brain development, disease mechanisms, and drug screening. However, in vitro human cerebral organoids have the risk of consciousness, moral status and informed consent issues, and face ownership issues and conflicts with neurodiversity values in applications. The ethical risks faced by human cerebral organoid chimera include its welfare, consciousness and moral status, as well as human dignity and moral humanization. The integration of human cerebral organoids with artificial intelligence or other types of organoids leads to the emergence of complex multi-brain organoid composites. The moral status and autonomy of such composites are expected to become focal points in future research.
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spelling doaj-art-52212052ffca42ed8b6cdae4f7d63da42025-08-20T02:37:12ZzhoEditorial Office of Medicine and PhilosophyYixue yu zhexue1002-07722025-05-014610121610.12014/j.issn.1002-0772.2025.10.0310-3-huangbinAn Ethical Analysis of Human Cerebral OrganoidsBin HUANG0School of Marxism, Central South University, Changsha 410000, ChinaHuman cerebral organoids are three-dimensional neural tissues with similar structure and biological function to human brain. Human cerebral organoids can be used to study human brain development, disease mechanisms, and drug screening. However, in vitro human cerebral organoids have the risk of consciousness, moral status and informed consent issues, and face ownership issues and conflicts with neurodiversity values in applications. The ethical risks faced by human cerebral organoid chimera include its welfare, consciousness and moral status, as well as human dignity and moral humanization. The integration of human cerebral organoids with artificial intelligence or other types of organoids leads to the emergence of complex multi-brain organoid composites. The moral status and autonomy of such composites are expected to become focal points in future research.https://yizhe.dmu.edu.cn/article/doi/10.12014/j.issn.1002-0772.2025.10.03human cerebral organoidsmoral statusneurodiversity valueshuman dignity
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An Ethical Analysis of Human Cerebral Organoids
Yixue yu zhexue
human cerebral organoids
moral status
neurodiversity values
human dignity
title An Ethical Analysis of Human Cerebral Organoids
title_full An Ethical Analysis of Human Cerebral Organoids
title_fullStr An Ethical Analysis of Human Cerebral Organoids
title_full_unstemmed An Ethical Analysis of Human Cerebral Organoids
title_short An Ethical Analysis of Human Cerebral Organoids
title_sort ethical analysis of human cerebral organoids
topic human cerebral organoids
moral status
neurodiversity values
human dignity
url https://yizhe.dmu.edu.cn/article/doi/10.12014/j.issn.1002-0772.2025.10.03
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