Re: Is it OK to Grow Test Tube Brains?
Originally Posted by
AnnieS
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Part of me is against this for ethical reasons, but another part is hungry for progress if we can find a way to transplant brain cells and halt alzheimers, reverse brain damage, cure paralysis. Imagine if they can bring someone who has dementia back to normal life. So I am torn on this subject.
Decades ago people were horrified at the idea of heart and other organ transplants. Scientific progress can seem horrific.
I didn't see anything about their reasons for doing this Annie, but have just looked at the article again and it says:
"The ambition is to use systems like this to study how the human brain and nervous system develop and why things go wrong in illnesses such as motor neurone disease, epilepsy and schizophrenia."
I suppose some research has to be done, else we'd still be living like cave men, I guess I just don't like thinking about how other things suffer because of it.