Table 2 Example Quotes of Potential Therapeutic Uses from Media Sample
From: Media portrayal of ethical and social issues in brain organoid research
Potential Therapeutic Uses | Quotation from Media Sample Texts |
|---|---|
Neurodevelopmental Research | "What these cerebral organoids excel at, he says, is offering a picture of how the brain develops, and how that development can go wrong" (source 95). |
Neurologic Disease/Disorder Research | "But [the minibrains] also promise hope of a cure for illnesses ranging from childhood epilepsy to Alzheimer's disease and brain cancer" (source 28). |
Neurologic Functioning Research | "there is the broader intellectual quest to understand mysteries such as memory, emotion and consciousness by studying synthetic brains” (source 62). |
Personalized/Precision Medicine | “Organoids will bring precision medicine closer to reality by developing patient-specific treatment strategies by studying which drugs the patient is most sensitive to" (source 31). |
Regenerative Medicine | "Leaving the controversial and ethical issues aside, the fact that you might be able to grow your own organ that has your own genes in a lab and transplant it when needed, avoiding the search for a donor and the immune reaction that happens after the transplant, is overwhelming" (source 45). |
IQ Improvement | "The scientist claimed that using this technique to bolster brain matter and improve someone's IQ would be 'quite safe'"(source 40). |
Stem Cell Research | "organoids are expected to advance our understanding of tissue renewal, stem cell/niche functions and tissue responses to drugs, mutation or damage, as well as unlocking the mysteries of several brain diseases and neurological disorders” (source 85). |