Sad sack or serious salvation? A small group of scientists is angling to replace laboratory animals with living “organ sacks” ...
Scientists have successfully connected living human brain cells to a computer system and taught them to interact with the classic video game DOOM. The strange experiment marks a new step toward ...
As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment.
Cortical Labs connected roughly 800,000 lab-grown human neurons to a high-density electrode array and let them interact with a simplified version of Doom, extending a line of research that began with ...