Anodyne
Tuesday, December 07, 2004
 
Brain Cells in Dish Fly Fighter Plane

"An array of rat brain cells has successfully flown a virtual F-22 fighter jet. The cells could one day become a more sophisticated replacement for the computers that control uncrewed aerial vehicles or, in the nearer future, form a test-bed for drugs against brain diseases such as epilepsy.

Enzymes were used to extract neurons from the motor cortex of mature rat embryos and cells were then seeded onto a grid of gold electrodes patterned on a glass Petri dish. The cells grew microscopic interconnections, turning them into a 'live computation device', explains Thomas DeMarse, a biomedical engineer at the University of Florida in Gainesville, US, who carried out the research."


- posted by cjb @ 1:09 AM


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