Leech Neuron Computers

Posted by Hemos on Wednesday June 2, 1999 @12:48AM from the it's-better-then-an-abacus dept.

Ralph Bearpark writes "The biological computer is born. A computer made of neurons taken from leeches has been created by US scientists. "I' I'd actually read about some of this research being done back in the early 80s at Bell Labs. Apparently they could actually get some read/write to the leech neurons, for use as storage devices, but they...uh...kept dying after for a few minutes. Anyone confirm/deny that?

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