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 ...

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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.

The system, delightfully dubbed DishBrain, is made of neurons in a petri dish connected to a computer. This set up would deliver electrical feedback to the cells indicating whether or not the in ...

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

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Scientists are once again asking if they 'could' and not if they 'should': a team of researchers at "biological computing startup" Cortical Labs has taught lab-grown brain cells to play Pong.