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 ...

Scientists train living human brain cells on a chip to play the video game Doom in a breakthrough biocomputing experiment.

Millions of human neurons are powering a new data centre in Melbourne – the first in the world to be powered by living brain cells. Launched on Tuesday by local startup Cortical Labs, the prototype ...

Scientists have demonstrated that human brain cells grown on a microchip can learn to play id Software’s classic first-person ...

A biocomputer powered by lab-grown human brain cells has leveled up from Pong to Doom. While nowhere ready to handle the video game shooter’s most challenging levels, researchers at Cortical Labs in ...

In a development straight out of science fiction, Australian startup Cortical Labs has released what it calls the world’s first code-deployable biological computer. The CL1, which debuted in March, ...

Human brain cells are now interacting with computer systems, learning to play video games like Doom. Researchers have ...

Understanding how a healthy brain works can provide insight into how it fails, too. Scientists hope that studying organoids derived from humans with neurodevelopmental disorders — particularly ...