Sorry - there are reasons it isn't mentioned. The sync is awful, its interface isn't great, and there is no cloud support.
I hope that now that they have been purchased by Elsevier (yes, really) they will have the manpower to implement over-the-web syncing, but until then its only usable on one Mac (or two if you can remember to quit it on your other machine...)
Love the desktop version, can't believe we are stuck without syncing between Macs and iPads still.
This technology was originally developed (2001) to do just that. The intention was to make a "bridge" between the white matter of the anterior portion of the spinal cord the grey matter below. Any communication between the two would eventually reroute the connections that were still available coming down from the brain to cells (motor neurons that go out to the limbs for example) that were still responsive below. The animal implants are in progress now, and they do show nice integration with the host spinal cord.
This technology was originally developed (2001) to do just that. The intention was to make a "bridge" between the white matter of the anterior portion of the spinal cord the grey matter below. Any communication between the two would eventually reroute the connections that were still available coming down from the brain to cells (motor neurons that go out to the limbs for example) that were still responsive below.
The animal implants are in progress now, and they do show nice integration with the host spinal cord.
"These young warriors will live, play, fight, and die in the Matrix."
Ummm, no, they won't. They will live, play, and fight in the Matrix. Only as they lay bleeding in some godforsaken desert, will they realize that they are going to die for real, and that all of their training was designed to make them forget that one simple fact.
Don't glorify war - it gets people killed.
I have seen this guy give a talk every year for 5 years. He always says the same thing "we are close to observing something here."
The truth is that no one has a clue whether he will ever see anything in these cultures that is meaningful. These are dissociated cells that are living in a culture dish. The laminar structure that the hippocampus has is destroyed in this process. It would be like throwing a bunch of wires together and hoping to come up with a few logic gates.
It is all hype right now. The neurons are not "controlling" the robot at all - the neurons have yet to show any organized activity. Even if they did - would you know what it meant??? I would be very surprised if this ever worked in its current incarnation...
Actually, they were taken from a rat, they were just explanted on to a petri dish to grow. If you really want the details, they are taken from a live pup that was surgically removed from the mother's uterus - its called embronic cultures.
Its also the only way to get decent rat cultures, so get used to it. And you are right, it is worth it.
Yes - the cells live in an incubator and are fed calf-serum enriched media. The incubator has enough O2 in it that the cells get oxygen through the media. The electrodes are on the bottom of the dish.
It is also nowhere near anything close to working.
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Sorry - there are reasons it isn't mentioned. The sync is awful, its interface isn't great, and there is no cloud support. I hope that now that they have been purchased by Elsevier (yes, really) they will have the manpower to implement over-the-web syncing, but until then its only usable on one Mac (or two if you can remember to quit it on your other machine...) Love the desktop version, can't believe we are stuck without syncing between Macs and iPads still.
This technology was originally developed (2001) to do just that. The intention was to make a "bridge" between the white matter of the anterior portion of the spinal cord the grey matter below. Any communication between the two would eventually reroute the connections that were still available coming down from the brain to cells (motor neurons that go out to the limbs for example) that were still responsive below. The animal implants are in progress now, and they do show nice integration with the host spinal cord.
This technology was originally developed (2001) to do just that. The intention was to make a "bridge" between the white matter of the anterior portion of the spinal cord the grey matter below. Any communication between the two would eventually reroute the connections that were still available coming down from the brain to cells (motor neurons that go out to the limbs for example) that were still responsive below. The animal implants are in progress now, and they do show nice integration with the host spinal cord.
Well - you're sort of right. She is at the Wistar Institute, which is on Penn's campus, but it isn't technically part of Penn :)
As for the difference in Penn State and Penn, its mostly the level of research that gets done at the graduate level.
"These young warriors will live, play, fight, and die in the Matrix." Ummm, no, they won't. They will live, play, and fight in the Matrix. Only as they lay bleeding in some godforsaken desert, will they realize that they are going to die for real, and that all of their training was designed to make them forget that one simple fact. Don't glorify war - it gets people killed.
I have seen this guy give a talk every year for 5 years. He always says the same thing "we are close to observing something here." The truth is that no one has a clue whether he will ever see anything in these cultures that is meaningful. These are dissociated cells that are living in a culture dish. The laminar structure that the hippocampus has is destroyed in this process. It would be like throwing a bunch of wires together and hoping to come up with a few logic gates. It is all hype right now. The neurons are not "controlling" the robot at all - the neurons have yet to show any organized activity. Even if they did - would you know what it meant??? I would be very surprised if this ever worked in its current incarnation...
Actually, they were taken from a rat, they were just explanted on to a petri dish to grow. If you really want the details, they are taken from a live pup that was surgically removed from the mother's uterus - its called embronic cultures. Its also the only way to get decent rat cultures, so get used to it. And you are right, it is worth it.
Yes - the cells live in an incubator and are fed calf-serum enriched media. The incubator has enough O2 in it that the cells get oxygen through the media. The electrodes are on the bottom of the dish. It is also nowhere near anything close to working.