Research
Researchers proved that tiny lab-grown brains can process information and read Braille just like a real computer
Earth.com · By Luis Arrais ·
The Brief
- Researchers grew specks of human brain tissue, called organoids, in a lab dish.
- The organoids received the shapes of Braille letters as electrical input and produced responses that could be read as classifications.
- The source describes the result as a partial answer to whether living brain cells could run computation, not a working biological computer.
Why it matters
It is an early proof of concept for using living neural tissue to process information, which matters for anyone following alternatives to silicon computing and the limits of organoid research.
Who’s affected
- neuroscientists and organoid researchers
- computing researchers interested in biological computing
- #organoids
- #biocomputing
- #neuroscience
- #braille
- #stem cells
Could a computer one day run on living brain cells instead of silicon? A small experiment has just given that question a plain, partial answer. Specks of human brain tissue, known as organoids, were grown in a dish in a lab. They received the shapes of Braille letters as…
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Earth.com reports the experiment in which lab-grown brain organoids processed Braille letter shapes
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Researchers proved that tiny lab-grown brains can process information and read Braille just like a real computer