Researchers are no longer just simulating brains in silicon, they are wiring living human neurons into machines and asking them to compute. Tiny clusters of brain cells, grown from stem cells and ...

Inside a lab in the picturesque Swiss town of Vevey, a scientist gives tiny clumps of human brain cells the nutrient-rich fluid they need to stay alive. It is vital these mini-brains remain healthy, ...

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SINGAPORE -- Think of a computer chip and the materials that spring to mind will likely be silicon, copper and plastic. An ambitious startup from Australia is now throwing a novel ingredient into the ...

Australian startup Cortical Labs has announced the world's first commercial biocomputer, the CL1, which is expected to perform calculations using neural networks, including AI, by connecting cultured ...

brain organoids were successfully created for the first time using cells collected from the brain of an aborted fetus. It is expected that research on the treatment of brain tumors and cancer will ...

Treating brain diseases is extraordinarily challenging, because drugs often work poorly and implants require risky surgery that can jeopardize critical brain functions. A group at MIT has sought a ...