The legal personhood of human brain organoids
Research using three-dimensional neural tissues derived from human pluripotent stem cells—known as ‘human brain organoids’—has progressed rapidly in recent years. Although related ethical issues have been intensively discussed, legal issues have only been sparsely examined compared with the related...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10070033/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37020804 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsad007 |
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author | Kataoka, Masanori Lee, Tsung-Ling Sawai, Tsutomu |
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description | Research using three-dimensional neural tissues derived from human pluripotent stem cells—known as ‘human brain organoids’—has progressed rapidly in recent years. Although related ethical issues have been intensively discussed, legal issues have only been sparsely examined compared with the related ethical issues. In this paper, we explore a fundamental issue concerning the legal status of human brain organoids: whether they can be considered legal persons. We clearly distinguish between two types of legal personhood: ‘natural person’ as a human legal person and ‘juridical person’ as a nonhuman legal person. By examining natural and juridical personhood separately, we point out the bias and confusion in the remarks on the legal personhood of human brain organoids and provide a more comprehensive picture of the problem. |
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spelling | pubmed-100700332023-04-04 The legal personhood of human brain organoids Kataoka, Masanori Lee, Tsung-Ling Sawai, Tsutomu J Law Biosci Original Article Research using three-dimensional neural tissues derived from human pluripotent stem cells—known as ‘human brain organoids’—has progressed rapidly in recent years. Although related ethical issues have been intensively discussed, legal issues have only been sparsely examined compared with the related ethical issues. In this paper, we explore a fundamental issue concerning the legal status of human brain organoids: whether they can be considered legal persons. We clearly distinguish between two types of legal personhood: ‘natural person’ as a human legal person and ‘juridical person’ as a nonhuman legal person. By examining natural and juridical personhood separately, we point out the bias and confusion in the remarks on the legal personhood of human brain organoids and provide a more comprehensive picture of the problem. Oxford University Press 2023-04-03 /pmc/articles/PMC10070033/ /pubmed/37020804 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsad007 Text en © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Duke University School of Law, Harvard Law School, Oxford University Press, and Stanford Law School. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Kataoka, Masanori Lee, Tsung-Ling Sawai, Tsutomu The legal personhood of human brain organoids |
title | The legal personhood of human brain organoids |
title_full | The legal personhood of human brain organoids |
title_fullStr | The legal personhood of human brain organoids |
title_full_unstemmed | The legal personhood of human brain organoids |
title_short | The legal personhood of human brain organoids |
title_sort | legal personhood of human brain organoids |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10070033/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37020804 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsad007 |
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