Melbourne startup Cortical Labs uses 200,000 human brain cells in a petri dish to play Doom by translating game data into ...

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How many brain cells does it take to play a game of Doom?

In a groundbreaking experiment, researchers have achieved a remarkable feat that blurs the lines between biology and technology. Cortical Labs has cultivated 800K brain cells in a petri dish, ...

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Cortical Labs demonstrated 800,000 cultured brain cells controlling elements of Doom via electrical stimulation and recording, highlighting an advance in biological computing interfaces. The ...

As members of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, Spencer Seiler and Kateryna Voitiuk helped develop technology for automatically collecting data from delicate cell cultures. They are turning that ...

A couple of years ago, a company called Cortical Labs released a video that showed a simplified version of Pong being played by a culture of human neurons in a Petri dish. The idea that a bunch of ...

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