{"id":163628,"date":"2023-05-10T12:22:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T17:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/tiny-human-brain-tissue-organoids-cant-be-legally-considered-a-person"},"modified":"2023-05-10T12:22:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T17:22:32","slug":"tiny-human-brain-tissue-organoids-cant-be-legally-considered-a-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/tiny-human-brain-tissue-organoids-cant-be-legally-considered-a-person","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Human Brain Tissue Organoids Can\u2019t Be Legally Considered \u201ca Person\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-human-brain-tissue-organoids-cant-be-legally-considered-a-person3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary: <\/strong>Researchers proposed the need for a legal framework to guide the conversation on whether or not human brain organoids can be considered people.<\/p>\n<p>Brain organoids are grown from stem cells in a lab, mimicking the growth and structure of real brains. However, they do not fulfill the requirements to be considered natural persons, according to the researchers.<\/p>\n<p>The study explores the potential juridical personhood of human brain organoids, and whether they can be considered legal entities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Researchers proposed the need for a legal framework to guide the conversation on whether or not human brain organoids can be considered people. Brain organoids are grown from stem cells in a lab, mimicking the growth and structure of real brains. However, they do not fulfill the requirements to be considered natural persons, according [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1496,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-law","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}