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Working Nerve Chip

Posted by timothy on from the unnerving-photo dept.

poetic writes: "Two scientists from Munich have succeeded in creating a nerve chip with silicon and snail nerves. The cells were hindered from growing away from the silicon with a plastic fence. They managed to get a signal to go from silicon through a neural circuit and back to the chip again. Cute, one step closer to a decent uplink! See the abstract at Nature's site."

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  1. Re:Done before... by negativekarmanow+tm · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    >A group of researchers in Texas did the same thing with mouse neurons about twelve years ago.

    Which is particularly of interest since Texans have significantly less neurons than mice.

    Hence "Dubya"

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