A new
study published in the journal
Neuron shows that networks of brain cells grown in a Petri dish can learn to play the arcade game Pong demonstrating, for the first time, what the researchers are calling “synthetic biological intelligence.” The study was led by Brett Kagan of Cortical Labs, a biological computing startup based in Melbourne, Australia, that is integrating living brain cells with computer chips.
Teaching brain cells Pong
Kagan and his colleagues cultured cortical neurons dissected from the brains of embryonic mice, or human stem cells reprogrammed into neurons, on high-density micro-electrode array chips that simultaneously can record the electrical activity of the cells and stimulate them. On the chip, the cells mature and connect with each other to form neuronal networks that then exhibit spontaneous electrical activity.
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