The bacteriologist Alexander Fleming is recalled as one of the brightest minds in the history of science. TIME once called ...

Scientists at UCSF have developed a new biomaterial that enables 3D printing of stem cells into precise configurations within petri dishes.

From the column: "I swear, the farther north you go the mosquitoes get larger. They are the size of aircraft carriers by the time you get to the Boundary Waters." ...

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 ...

Few games have been meme-ified quite like Doom, and in the past, many have capitalized on the joke. Scientists have gotten E.

In 2024, Elon Musk's Neuralink implant allowed a quadriplegic patient to play RuneScape and Slay the Spire in his brain. But now, scientists are taking things further, training lab-grown brain cells ...

Understandably, you're likely scratching your head, wondering how it's even possible for a petri dish to play Doom. Good question. The answer is the CL1, "the world’s first code ...

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, ...

Can a set of lab-grown human neurons fused with silicon play Doom? The answer to that question is yes, and the proof of concept required a massive leap from the Pong-playing demonstration we saw a few ...

Some argue that human existence is remarkable as the odds of our being here at all are so small. There is some truth in this perspective: Earth sits in a ‘Goldilocks zone’, a habitable region around a ...

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 ...

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 ...