Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a dead organism introduces a “third state” that lies beyond the traditional ...

A group of scientists out of Melbourne, Australia have proven that brain cells in a dish can learn how to play Pong.The experiment is one of the first times that cells like this have shown the ...

Scientists have successfully grown over 400 different types of nerve cells from stem cells in the lab—a groundbreaking step toward replicating the complexity of the human brain.

Cortical Labs first made headlines for its petri dish game system in December 2021.However, it wasn’t until recently that it published the peer-reviewed paper of its findings.

For the first time, researchers at ETH Zurich have successfully produced hundreds of different types of nerve cell from human ...

A newly published study in the scientific journal Neuron details a group of researchers that took 800,000 mouse and human brain cells, placing them in a petri dish that they named DishBrain. The ...

Researchers have created over 400 distinct types of human nerve cells in vitro, vastly expanding the diversity available for ...

People are going on social media to share their belief that this antiparasitic drug can fight cancer. Learn what the science ...

With a new study in the journal Developmental Cell, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine coaxed stem cells in a petri dish to divide, mature, and take on ...

From leaf to vascular bundle, cells are reborn. Plants have an extremely high capacity to adapt to their environment. When the seeds of pea sprouts left over from cooking are soaked in water, the ...

Petri Dish: Vertex scales cell manufacturing; ... The Petri Dish is a collection of life sciences news that may get overlooked with so much biotech business activity throughout Greater Boston.

The scientists call their silicon/neuron conglomeration DishBrain. And to be clear, the process was a bit more abstract than just sitting a Petri dish down in front of a copy of Video Olympics for ...