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 ...

How does a single cell reliably build one of the most complex structures known in nature? New research suggests the answer ...

Living human neurons were trained to play Doom, extending the long-running engineering benchmark into biological computing.

A cluster of lab-grown human brain cells has apparently made the leap to successfully playing a very rudimentary video game ...

Researchers at Australian start-up Cortical Labs have taught human neurons grown on a chip to play the classic Doom game. In 2021, they had already used 800,000 neurons to play Pong. Now, with four ...

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

Accumulation of the protein tau in the brain is one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease. In a paper published in Cell ...

"If the neurons fire in a specific pattern, the Doom guy shoots." The post Researchers Get Human Brain Cells Running Doom ...

A pair of new studies have provided fresh evidence in the long-running scientific debate—and the result could be game-changing for treating diseases like Alzheimer’s and dementia.

After training neurons to play Pong, the team is back, and this time the brain cells are slaying demons with super shotguns.

Researchers found three master genes that alter brain development in Down syndrome, offering new clues about learning and memory differences.

Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications ...