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ArticleJournal of medical ethics2024

Animus: human-embodied animals.

Julian Savulescu, Tsutomu Sawai

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Article in Journal of medical ethics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Julian SavulescuCentre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore julian.savulescu@philosophy.ox.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-1691-6403
Tsutomu SawaiCentre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0002-3806-0573

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust WT203132
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We review recent research to introduce human brain organoids into the brains of infant rats. This research shows these organoids integrate and function to affect behaviour in rats. We argue that this raises issues of moral status that will imminently arise and must be addressed through functional studies of these new life forms. We situate this research in the broader context of the biological revolution, arguing we already have the technological power to create fully human embodied animals. This raises profound, so far unaddressed ethical issues which call for urgent attention.

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BrainOrganoidsAnimalsHumansModels, AnimalMoral StatusRatsanimalschimeraethics- research

Identifiers

PMID37802640
PMCPMC11503069

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