World’s first
#LivingComputer goes global with 10 universities on board:
The company is experimenting with clusters of neurons called organoids that perform simple computational tasks.
These brain organoids are created from human skin cells, reprogrammed into stem cells, and then developed into neurons.
Each
#Organoid, roughly the size of a fruit fly’s brain, contains about 10,000 neurons, a minuscule fraction of the 100 billion in a human brain.
The emerging field, known as
#BioComputing or wetware, is being explored by a handful of research institutions worldwide,
aiming to tap into the biological efficiency of the human brain to create an entirely new kind of processor.
The Swiss start-up
#FinalSpark is experimenting with “
#BioProcessors,” clusters of neurons called organoids that perform simple
#ComputationalTasks.
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