The End of Personification: The Mereological Fallacy in Science Communication on Brain Organoids

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American Journal of Bioethics 24 (1):51-54 (2024)
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In the last two decades, stem cell-based brain organoids have been developed to study disease mechanisms in various neurological, psychiatric, and developmental disorders. Simultaneously, there hav...

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10.1080/15265161.2023.2278564

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