A cluster of rat neurons, grown on a chip in a Japanese laboratory, just learned to generate a sine wave on command. Across ...

We live in a world where computers can power the entire world wide web, create music and art, and even write college essays. But when it comes to taming biology, we have not been able to take full ...

Supercomputers are absurdly impressive in terms of raw power, but it comes at a price: size and energy consumption. A multi-university team of researchers might've sidestepped that, though, with ...

Have you ever heard of a computer made by connecting living brain cells to electronic devices? Sound like something out of a nightmare or a dystopian sci-fi novel? It's not. This is the subject of a ...

A video interview with Brett Kagan, CSO of Australia's Cortical Labs Dr. Brett Kagan, CSO of Cortical Labs. Photo courtesy of Cortical Labs “Biocomputers made from brain cells could be used to predict ...

Although most neurotransmitters perform the same basic role, they are not fungible. Each takes the baton from an incoming action potential and passes the neural message across the synaptic divide, yet ...

A team of international scientists from Canada, the U.K., Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden announced Friday that they had developed a model biological supercomputer capable of solving complex ...

Swiss innovators have recently unveiled a ‘living’ computer or biocomputer that utilizes 16 human mini-brains, also known as organoids to perform computational tasks. This innovative system was ...

The convergence of tech and biology heralds a transformative shift in computing. Remember that scene in a sci-fi movie where a human connects with a computer? That concept might not be so far-fetched ...

Australian startup Cortical Labs has announced the world's first commercial biocomputer, the CL1, which is expected to perform calculations using neural networks, including AI, by connecting cultured ...

Science is advancing our understanding of the human body (photo taken at the Wellcome Centre, London) —Image by © Tim Sandle Science is advancing our understanding ...