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 ...

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

Melbourne startup Cortical Labs uses 200,000 human brain cells in a petri dish to play Doom by translating game data into ...

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

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 ...

Making a living brain transparent and watching its neurons fire without disturbing their function-sounds like science fiction ...

A pair of new studies have provided fresh evidence in the long-running scientific debate—and the result could be ...

Researchers say they have found clear evidence that the human brain can keep making new neurons well into adulthood, potentially settling decades of controversy. This new neuron growth, or ...

A newly discovered mechanism that protects nerve cells could have important implications for understanding and treating mental illness.

Neurodegenerative diseases affect more than 57 million people globally. The incidence of these diseases, from Alzheimer's to Parkinson's to ALS and beyond, is expected to double every 20 years. Though ...