{"id":33896,"date":"2017-01-28T06:42:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T14:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/the-ethics-of-organoids-scientists-weigh-in-on-new-mini-organs"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:53:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:53:14","slug":"the-ethics-of-organoids-scientists-weigh-in-on-new-mini-organs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/the-ethics-of-organoids-scientists-weigh-in-on-new-mini-organs","title":{"rendered":"The Ethics of Organoids: Scientists Weigh in on New Mini-Organs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-ethics-of-organoids-scientists-weigh-in-on-new-mini-organs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Growing organs in the lab is an enduring sci-fi trope, but as stem cell technology brings it ever closer to reality, scientists are beginning to contemplate the ethics governing disembodied human tissue.<\/p>\n<p>So-called organoids have now been created from gut, kidney, pancreas, liver and <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/07\/26\/how-tiny-lab-grown-human-brains-are-giving-big-insights-into-autism\/\">even brain tissue<\/a>. Growing these <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/04\/22\/theyre-alive-watch-these-mini-3d-printed-organs-beat-just-like-hearts\/\">mini-organs<\/a> has been made possible by advances in stem cell technology and the development of 3D support matrices that allow cells to develop just like they would in vivo.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike simple tissue cultures, they exhibit important structural and functional properties of organs, and many believe they could dramatically accelerate research into human development and disease.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/01\/27\/the-ethics-of-organoids-scientists-weigh-in-on-new-mini-organs\/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&utm_campaign=854d1bf479-Hub_Daily_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-854d1bf479-57450241\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/01\/27\/the-ethics-of-organoid...5;57450241<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing organs in the lab is an enduring sci-fi trope, but as stem cell technology brings it ever closer to reality, scientists are beginning to contemplate the ethics governing disembodied human tissue. So-called organoids have now been created from gut, kidney, pancreas, liver and even brain tissue. Growing these mini-organs has been made possible by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,30,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-ethics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33896","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58981,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33896\/revisions\/58981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}